Harmony and Newcrest teaming up in PNG
Two of the biggest gold miners not listed on the TSX are combining forces in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with the hopes …
Gold
Yukon-Nevada halts underground mining at Jerritt Canyon
Vancouver – Around 240 miners are out of work at Yukon-Nevada Gold’s (YNG-T) Smith and SSX mines at its Jerritt Can…
Augen Gold on hot property
SITE VISIT JEROME, ONT. — Augen Gold (AUJ-V) CEO Michael Fowler believes that where there’s smoke, there’s probably fire. And with the Young-Shannon gold deposit close by (owned by Metallum…
Oromin tallies Sabodala resource
Oromin Explorations (OLE-V, OLEPF-O) has reported an initial inferred resource estimate totalling 1.4 million oz. gold at its Sabodala project in eastern Senagal.
Andina doubles Volcan
Andina Minerals (ADM-V, ADMNF-O) has boosted measured and indicated resources at its Volcan gold project, in Chile, to 6.62 million oz. gold. The last resource estimate was released in October 2007 an…
Certej study predicts 11-year mine life
A feasibility study for European Goldfields’ (EGU-T, EGU-L) Certej gold-silver project in Romania says an open-pit mining operation could produce an average of 156,000 oz. gold and 814,000 oz. silver …
Goldcorp dekes out Agnico-Eagle with Gold Eagle bid
The pace of takeovers in the mining sector shows no signs of slowing, with the latest move seeing heavyweight Goldcorp( G-T, GG-N) making a friendly $1.5-billion cash-and-shares bid for Gold Eagle Min…
Southern Arc goes deep in Indonesia
VANCOUVER — The deep reach of Southern Arc Minerals’ (SA-V, SOACF-O) drills has paid off with the company’s longest mineralized intercept to date at its 21-sq.-km Selodong prospect on west Lombok Isl…
Yukon-Nevada eyes Ketza revival
WHITEHORSE, YUKON — Yukon- Nevada Gold (YNG-T, YNGFF-O) has cut one of its best intercepts to date at its Ketza River property, about 125 km northeast of Whitehorse, Yukon. The market thanked Yukon-N…
Editorial: Teck, Goldcorp, find there’s no place like home
With Canadian miners running into all sorts of problems overseas dealing with greedy and at times openly hostile governments, assets back home in the Great White North are looking better each year, ev…
Timmins Gold gets San Francisco production-ready (August 11, 2008)
A new crusher is on the way to Timmins Gold’s (TMM-V, TMGOF-O) San Francisco heap-leach open-pit operation in Sonora state, Mexico, where the company is getting ready to restart production at the past…
Thumbs up for Silver Eagle’s Miguel Auza mine
The fully permitted Miguel Auza mine, which generated its first revenue for Silver Eagle Mines (SEG-T, SVEGF-O) during a bulk-sampling program last year, shows promising economics according to a prefe…