Lundin’s NGEx sees big potential in Josemaria
NGEx Resources (TSX: NGQ) is moving ahead with a prefeasibility study on its Josemaria copper-gold porphyry deposit in Argentina’s San Juan province, and believes it can wrap it up by…
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Canada’s top-10 base metal juniors
The Northern Miner has listed the top-10 base metal and uranium juniors — with no production, and which are not a royalty company — headquartered in Canada, arranged by market…
Canada’s top-10 precious metal juniors
The Northern Miner has pulled together the top-10 precious metal juniors (with no production and excluding royalty companies) that are headquartered in Canada, arranged by market capitalization as of the…
Banyan arranges nearly $1M financing
Banyan Gold (TSXV: BYN; US-OTC: BYAGF) has arranged a $931,000 private placement with insiders participating for $112,000, or 12%. It closed the private placement’s first tranche, worth half a million…
Avino sees copper output rise, silver-gold decline in Q2
Vancouver-based junior miner Avino Silver & Gold Mines (TSX: ASM; NYSE-AM: ASM) had a mixed second quarter of production at its Avino property in Mexico’s Durango state, with copper production…
Kintavar bets on Mitchi in Quebec
Noranda was poking around 300 km north of Montreal, Que., in the 1970s when it drilled into what it believed was a skarn deposit grading around 0.5% copper, and walked…
Top 10 Canadian royalty, streaming companies by market cap
The Northern Miner presents the top 10 Canadian-headquartered royalty and streaming companies by market capitalization, as of early July 2018. 1. FRANCO-NEVADA Market cap: $17.7 billion Franco-Nevada’s (TSX: FNV; NYSE:…
Lumina encouraged by results at Cangrejos in Ecuador
Lumina Gold (TSXV: LUM; US-OTC: LUMAF) has tabled a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its 63 sq. km Cangrejos gold project in Ecuador’s El Oro province, 30 km southeast of…
Bluestone’s Cerro Blanco takes shape in Guatemala
When John Robins, founder and chairman of Kaminak Gold, sold the junior to Goldcorp (TSX: GG; NYSE: GG) for $560 million in 2016, the exploration geologist and entrepreneur let it…
TSX ends lower, June 25-29
The S&P/TSX Composite Index fell 1.05% to 16,277.73. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index declined 0.63% to finish at 191.54, while spot gold fell 1.15% to US$1,252.40 per oz. gold. The…
Mexican Gold’s Las Minas has big-time backers
It all started with a cup of coffee in Zacatecas. Brian Robertson was swapping stories with a fellow engineer when he learned about 30 historical mines in the cliffs and…
Silver set for lacklustre gains in late 2018
The following is an edited release by precious metals consultancy firm Metals Focus, coinciding with the publication on June 7 of Silver Focus 2018, its flagship annual report that features…