Duluth Metals puts puzzle together with Franconia acquisition
Vancouver – In a significant land consolidation, Duluth Metals (DM-T) has reached an agreement to acquire Franconia Minerals (FRA-T) in a $77 million deal.
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The Strait goods on Peruvian grassroots copper exploration
Peru’s Apurimac Belt already boasts eight significant mines and advanced-development projects, but Strait Gold (SRD-V) is offering investors a chance to get in on a grassroots project in the area.
Sunridge advances in Eritrea
SITE VISIT ASMARA, ERITREA — Six years and $30 million into its Eritrean exploration adventure, Sunridge Gold (SGC-V) has defined four deposits lying in an arc around the capital city Asmara that together host indicated resources containing…
After the quake, Chile seeks more from copper miners
Santiago, Chile — As dawn broke on Feb. 27, 2010, Chileans were aghast at the destruction wrought by a huge…
Majority of mining operations in Chile unscathed
A massive earthquake over the weekend that struck central Chile, 115 km northeast of Concepcion and about 325 …
Pakistan may renegotiate Reko Diq contract
There is new uncertainty surrounding Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) and Antofagasta’s (ANTO-L) Reko Diq copper-…
Duluth Metals JVs with Antofagasta to advance Nokomis
It’s not very often that a junior Canadian explorer hooks a South American mining giant with a promising depos…
UN Sanctions Against Eritrea To Impede Miners?
Sunridge Gold (SGC-V) says new United Nations Security Council sanctions against Eritrea won’t interfere with its ambitious drilling and exploration plans there in 2010.
Sunridge Gold to get US$10 million from Antofagasta
Vancouver junior Sunridge Gold (SGC-V) is getting a helping hand from copper giant Antofagasta Minerals (ANFGY…
Exeter advances Caspiche and Cerro Moro
Copiapo, Chile — The road from the city of Copiapo to Exeter Resource’s (XRC-V, XRA-X) Caspiche gold-co…
Apoquindo copper chiefs see near-term production
SITE VISIT Antofagasta, Chile — The word apoquindo means “meeting of the chiefs.” It’s an appropriate name for a company chaired by the former head of the world’s biggest copper…
No end in sight for moly rally (March 31, 2008)
Diminishing inventories, surging steel consumption and the widening scope of end-uses for molybdenum will sustain the current rally in prices for the base metal, according to the CPM Group, a New York…