Silver

A leach pad, tailing ponds and other processing facilities at Silvercrest Mines' Santa Elena gold-silver mine in Hermosillo, Mexico - one of Sandstorm Gold's producing gold streams. Photo by Silvercrest Mines

Sandstorm Gold a rising star in commodity-stream financing

Sandstorm Gold (SSL-V) is not an exploration or operational mining outfit. The company is not interested in spending equity capital on surface exploration, drill programs or environmental-impact studies. Instead, Sandstorm took the idea of…


Fortuna sees a reversal of fortunes

Vancouver — Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI-T, FSM-N) is the latest company to get hammered for cost escalations after missing 2011 projections and forecasting higher costs for 2012.



Studying a map at Sego Resources' Miner Mountain project in Princeton, British Columbia, from left: CEO J. Paul Stevenson, project manager Curt Kauss, director Al Hilton and reclamation and site preparation manager Bob Dennis. Photo by Ian Bickis

Sego set to scale Miner Mountain

If you’ve ever been to Princeton, home to the recently opened Copper Mountain mine, you’ve also seen Sego Resources’ (SGZ-V) Miner Mountain copper property. 


Continental rebounds on Buritica results

Continental Gold (CNL-T) has released high-grade assays on 13 drill holes collared on its fully owned Buritica gold-silver-zinc property in Antioquia, Colombia. 


Workers at an entrance to the underground workings at Tahoe Resources' Escobal silver project in Guatemala. Photo by Tahoe Resources

Tahoe looks for milestones at Escobal

Controlling one of the world’s richest silver deposits, Tahoe Resources (THO-T) is looking towards another year of milestones as it works to put its Escobal project in Guatemala into production.


Rambler looks to fire-up production at Ming

Vancouver — Hard work appears to be paying off for London-based Rambler Metals and Mining (RAB-V, RMM-L). The company has reported three-month operational highlights, including maiden-gold production details from its Ming gold-copper mine…


Cinco de Mayo doesn’t disappoint for MAG Silver

Drill results from Cinco de Mayo, 190 km north of the city of Chihuahua in Mexico, indicate continuous mineralization over a 400-metre dip length with mineralization remaining open down dip and along strike, MAG Silver (MAG-T, MVG-X) reports.


Skyline scours the Golden Triangle

Skyline Gold (SK-V) is hunting for high-grade gold in the Golden Triangle in northwest British Columbia at its Iskut property, with hopes of striking it big.



McEwen bets on innovation

Rob McEwen is known for thinking outside the box so it wasn’t surprising to learn that McEwen Mining (MUX-T, MUX-N)—a company he created in January through the combination of U.S. Gold and Minera Andes and in which he owns a 25%…


FDG keeps drilling Topacio

FDG Mining (FDG-V) is working to prove up resources at the past-producing Topacio gold concession in central eastern Nicaragua, with an ongoing two-phase drill program.


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