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An exploration camp and Cornerstone Capital Resources’ personnel at the Miocene gold-silver-copper property in Chile. Newcrest Mining holds an option to earn up to 75% of the project. Credit: Cornerstone Capital Resources.

Newcrest options Cornerstone’s Miocene

Over the last 15 years, Australian gold major Newcrest Mining (ASX: NCM) has found gold deposits in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, and continues to explore and evaluate prospects…


TSX falls, Sept. 3-7

Canada’s benchmark index fell 1.06% to 16,090.27 during a shortened trading week. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index fell 4.3% to 62.70 and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell 2.9% to…


A driller at SolGold’s Cascabel copper-gold project in northern Ecuador. Credit: SolGold.

BHP buys SolGold stake for US$35M

BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP; LON: BLT) is acquiring a 6.1% stake in SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LON: SOLG), which is developing its Cascabel porphyry copper-gold project in Ecuador. BHP is buying…


A driller at SolGold’s Cascabel copper-gold project in northern Ecuador. Credit: SolGold.

SolGold steps up drilling campaign in Ecuador

With US$90 million in the bank and plenty of ground still to explore, Brisbane-based SolGold (TSX: SOLG; US-OTC: SLGGF) has embarked on a 120,000-metre, 12-drill program at its Cascabel copper-gold…


The runner-up photo in PwC’s Art of Mining competition showing modernization at Gran Colombia Gold’s Segovia gold mine in Antioquia, Colombia. Credit: Gran Colombia Gold.

Snapshot: Juniors in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

For mineral explorers and developers, the northern Andean countries of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are a potent combination of richly endowed metal mineralization and under-explored terrain, all hosted in relatively…



SolGold’s Cascabel camp, 180 km north of Quito in Ecuador. The company expects to ramp up from five to eight drill rigs before delivering its first inferred resource estimate at the property’s Alpala porphyry cluster later this year. Credit: SolGold.

SolGold expands Alpala

VANCOUVER  — SolGold (TSX: SOLG; USOTC: SLGGF; LON:SOLG) is building momentum at its 85%-owned Cascabel copper-gold project, 180 km north of Ecuador’s capital Quito. The company expects to ramp up  from…


Lundin Gold’s Fruta del Norte gold project in the Cordillera del Condor near Loja, Ecuador. Credit: Lundin Gold.

Ecuador snapshot: 10 active companies

VANCOUVER — The Ecuadorian government restructured its mining and tax policies in 2014 in a bid to bring back foreign investment that had fled the country in previous years. The move…



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