Western Australia is world’s new top mining destination
Resource-rich Western Australia has been picked the most attractive region for mining investment in 2021, replacing the U.S. state of Nevada, which fell to the third place in the latest…
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US markets fall during Apr. 4-8 trading week
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 200.76 points or 0.57% to 34,721.12 and the S&P 500 fell 94.36 points or 2.1% over the week to 4,488.28. Shares of Gatos…
Ambler Metals’ suspended access road permits in legal limbo
A judge of the Federal District of Alaska is expected to render a decision soon in a dispute regarding the development of a 340-km, east-west-running controlled industrial access road that…
Westhaven drills highest ever intercept (37 g/t Au and 215 g/t Ag) at Shovelnose
Westhaven Gold (TSXV: WHN) has released new results from ongoing drilling at its wholly owned Shovelnose gold project. Covering 76.2 sq. km, Shovelnose is the largest of the company’s four properties…
Orla Mining lays out its Mexico and Panama exploration aims
Following the first gold pour in December at Orla Mining’s (TSX: OLA; NYSE: ORLA) Camino Rojo oxide gold mine in Mexico, the company is embarking on a 2022 exploration strategy…
Freeman Gold reports bonanza grades from Lemhi project in Idaho
Toronto-based Freeman Gold (TSXV: FMAN; US-OTC: FMANF) has reported near-surface, bonanza grade results from a recent drilling program at the company’s Beauty zone site, part of its 100%-owned Lemhi gold…
Court halts exploration at Los Andes Copper’s Minera Vizcachitas project on potential endangered species impact
Los Andes Copper (TSXV: LA; US-OTC: LSANF) has stopped drilling at its Minera Vizcachitas project in central Chile after an environment court asked it to suspend its operations in an…
Wolfden hits 50 metres of 173.3 g/t silver equivalent in expansion drilling at Big Silver
Wolfden Resources (TSXV: WLF) has received results from last year’s drilling at the Big Silver project in Maine, where the company holds the mineral rights to a land package of…
Copper, gold, silver key to making carbon capture efforts succeed – study
A group of chemists at Tsinghua University have developed a nano-scale structure that combines copper, gold and silver to work as a superior catalyst in a reaction whose performance will…
US markets fall, March 7-11
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 670.61 points or 1.99% to finish the March 7-11 trading week at 32,944.19 and the S&P 500 dropped 124.56 points or 2.88% to 4,204.31….
MAG Silver to acquire Gatling Exploration in all-share deal
MAG Silver (TSX: MAG; NYSE-A: MAG) is acquiring Canadian junior Gatling Exploration (TSXV: GTR) in an all-share deal. Gatling shareholders would receive 0.017 of a MAG common share for each…
Wheaton Precious shares drop on earnings miss
The New York-quoted equity of Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (Nasdaq: WPM: TSX: WPM) fell on Friday after the company overnight reported lower earnings and revenue, missing analyst forecasts for the…