Gold

A worker displays a drill-hole-camera image at Great Basin Gold's new Burnstone gold mine in South Africa. Photo by Ian Bickis.

Great Basin opens Burnstone gold mine (March 05, 2011)

SITE VISIT: Balfour, South Africa – In July 2006, Great Basin Gold (GBG-T) started building its Burnstone gold mine in South Africa, looking to be the first new gold producer in the Witwatersrand basin in 30 years.



An Alaskan district takes shape

Vancouver – Talk of a district may be premature, but interest is growing in an area roughly 150 km northwest of Anchorage Alaska thanks largely to Kiska Metals’ (KSK-V) efforts there.


Canarc withdraws from buying Relief Canyon

Following a due diligence review of Firstgold’s bankrupt Relief Canyon gold mine in Nevada, Canarc Resource (ccm-t) has decided not to proceed with a US$11-million acquisition.


Oyu Tolgoi to produce 3 million oz. silver a year

With silver prices cruising to new heights, investor interest in the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia has “prompted” Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N, IVN-Q) to “more widely circulate the projections for silver production that have…



High-grade intersects for Temex Resources in Timmins

Exploration drilling on the 6 Vein area of the Upper Hallnor mine has returned wide core lengths of gold mineralization, Temex Resources (TME-V) says, with 9.97 grams gold per tonne over 6.70 metres including 66 grams gold over 0.8 metre (hole…





Drilling at the Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska. Credit: Northern Dynasty Minerals

Pebble PEA makes a big splash (February 28, 2011)

Vancouver – February was a busy month for Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-T, NAK-X) and Anglo American (AAL-L) at their gigantic Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in southwest Alaska, said by many to be one of the largest undeveloped…


Entre Gold is ‘sitting pretty’

Entrée Gold (etg-t, egi-x) is “strongly undervalued” given the potential that exists for it to sell its Mongolian assets to Ivanhoe Mines (ivn-t, ivn-n) or Rio Tinto (rio-n, rio-l), Christopher Ecclestone of Hallgarten & Co. argues…


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