2011

Lower Q2 production at Eastplats’ Crocodile

Eastern Platinum (ELR-T) saw second-quarter production from its main Crocodile River platinum group metals (PGM) mine in South Africa’s Bushveld Complex shrink by one third, due to labour issues that led to a strike at the mine in early…




The overall winning shot of the Urubamba salt mine in Peru. Photo by Joe Brnobic

Photo contest winners announced

The winners of the 7th annual photo competition put on by Australia-headquartered mining consultancy Snowden have been announced.


Goldcorp’s Penasquito yet to find its legs

Beset by a string of early production issues, Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) is hurriedly working to ramp up to full production at its newest flagship mining asset, the Penasquito silver-gold-lead-zinc mine in Mexico’s Zacatecas State.


Midas explores consolidated Idaho gold property

Vancouver – Recently-launched Midas Gold (MAX-T) is working through a 20,000-metre drill program at its consolidated gold property in Idaho’s Stibnite-Yellow Pine district as it looks to prove up the project’s potential.



Great Panther re-starts concentrate shipments

Great Panther Silver (GPR-T, GPL-X) has started shipping silver-gold pyrite concentrates from its Guanajuato mine to a new buyer in Mexico. Shipments had been delayed because an overseas smelter with which Great Panther had a one-year contract…


Majescor doubles on pre-earthquake Haitian drill results

Ottawa-based Majescor Resources (MJX-V) has released high-grade gold assays, including 10.5 metres of 77 grams gold per tonne, from drilling completed in December 2009 at its Somine gold-copper project in northeast Haiti.



U.S. Gold gets edge in Mexico with new hire

U.S. Gold Corp.’s (UXG-T, UXG-N) El Gallo project in Sinaloa, Mexico is often compared with Pan American Silver’s (PAA-T, PAAS-Q) Alamo Dorado deposit, now an operating silver mine 240 km to the north. 


Venezuela’s Chavez to nationalize gold industry

Having already nationalized most of Venezuela’s main industries, including oil, banking, telecommunications, power and hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural land, president Hugo Chavez’s announcement on Wednesday that he will soon…


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