Fresnillo, Mag Silver on track at Juanicipio
Although the processing plant at their Juanicipio mine won’t be completed until next year, partners Fresnillo (LSE: FRES) and Mag Silver (TSX: MAG; NYSE-MAG) were able to declare first production…
Zinc-Lead
Southwest US snapshot: Eight companies active in the region
The southwestern United States has a long-standing history of mining and remains one of the nation’s top mineral regions. With existing infrastructure, an established regulatory and permitting regime and prospective…
Adriatic Metals secures US$28M financing package
Adriatic Metals (LSE: ADT2; ASX: ADT) has signed agreements to raise US$28 million from two new investors – Queen’s Road Capital Investment and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development…
Atalaya acquires Masa Valverde polymetallic project in Spain
Atalaya Mining (TSX: AYM; LSE: ATYM) is acquiring the Masa Valverde polymetallic project in Spain for a total of €1.4 million (US$1.7 million) in cash from a private vendor. The…
HighGold drills Johnson Tract polymetallic project in Alaska
HighGold Mining (TSXV: HIGH; US-OTC: HGGOF) has reported additional drill results from its 15,000-metre drill program on its flagship Johnson Tract polymetallic project in southcentral Alaska, 15km west of Tuxedni Bay…
Osisko Metals drills high-grade zinc-lead at Pine Point
Osisko Metals (TSX: OM) has released assay results for four holes completed at the Central zone, around the O53 deposit, within its past-producing Pine Point zinc and lead project in…
‘It’s a great time to be in the industry’: Great Panther Mining focuses on stability, growth
Great Panther Silver changed its name to Great Panther Mining (TSX: GPR; NYSE-AM: GPL) last year after adding the Tucano gold mine in northern Brazil to its portfolio of two…
Central Asia Metals fined for tailings breach
Central Asia Metals (LSE: CAML) has been fined €65,000 (US$75,757) for a tailings breach at its Sasa zinc-lead mine in North Macedonia on Sept. 14 that leaked an estimated 8,000…
Raymond James raises price forecasts for base metals, iron ore
Raymond James forecasts higher average prices for copper, nickel, lead, zinc and iron ore, but lower prices for uranium, its analysts wrote in a research note. The financial services firm…
TSX mixed, Sept. 14-18
The S&P/TSX Composite Index fell 0.15% to 16,198.97 during the Sept. 14-18 trading week. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 0.52% to 101.18, and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index…
Central Asia Metals reports tailings leak in North Macedonia
Central Asia Metals (AIM: CAML) has reported that tailings from its Sasa zinc-lead mine have leaked into a local river in North Macedonia. The leakage, discovered at 5 a.m. on…
Pickett Mountain ‘one of North America’s highest-grade undeveloped polymetallic deposits’, says Wolfden VP
Wolfden Resources (TSXV: WLF) has released a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Pickett Mountain massive sulphide project in northern Maine, 5 km from the nearest highway and 24 km…