Odds ‘n’ Sods: Playing high stakes poker for Fruta del Norte
The following is the second of two parts of the abridged first chapter of an upcoming memoir entitled “The Last Great Adventure,” for which any profits will go to the…
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Ross Beaty and Thomas Kaplan discuss Argentina, Macri
BEAVER CREEK, COLORADO — Founder and chairman of Pan American Silver (TSX: PAA; NASDAQ: PAAS) Ross Beaty recently met with Mauricio Macri, the president of Argentina, and discussed the prospects of the…
Interview: Kirkland Lake Gold’s new CEO discusses vision for the company
Anthony Makuch took the helm of Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX: KGI) on July 18, 2016. Before joining the Ontario-focused gold producer, Makuch was president and CEO of Lake Shore Gold,…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: An introduction to bush life
I spent my first summer in the bush in 1958, soon after graduating from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in geology and geophysics. McPhar Geophysics had hired me as chief…
Wallbridge, Lonmin mark progress at Parkin in Sudbury
Wallbridge Mining (TSX: WM) and its largest shareholder, Lonmin (LSE: LMI), have approved a $3.95-million drill program starting Oct. 1 for their Parkin nickel-copper-platinum group metal (PGM) project near Sudbury,…
Barrick takes fresh look at Pascua-Lama
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX: NYSE: ABX) has rehired one of its former executives and a seasoned mine builder to evaluate options for a more modest, scalable starter project that could…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: The rediscovery of Nambija and the road to FDN in Ecuador
The following is an edited version of the first chapter from an upcoming memoir entitled “The Last Great Adventure,” for which any profits will go to the Baca Ortiz Hospital…
Balmoral stakes more ground near Detour Trend in the Abitibi
Balmoral Resources (TSX: BAR; US-OTC: BALMF) founder Darin Wagner has had his eye on the Hwy 810 property for years now as part of a corporate effort to plant the…
Odin Mining to buy Ecuador Gold and Copper
In a friendly all-share deal that knits together assets in southern Ecuador, Odin Mining and Exploration (TSXV: ODN), a junior that counts mining entrepreneur Ross Beaty as its largest shareholder,…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: Sake and rescue
One of the great parts of our business is the places we go and the interesting people we get to meet. In the early ’90s when diamond mania swept through…
Editorial: A fresh look at mining’s CSR success stories
Admittedly, our eyes tend to glaze over at the thought of reading a 74-page report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in mining, but a newly released one by the Columbia…
Odds ‘n’ Sods : Cobalt’s silver boom and the rise of mining media in Canada
The early history of hard rock mining in Ontario is essentially the story of the discovery of silver in Cobalt in 1903. It wasn’t long before the Cobalt mines became…