Brio advances Santa Luz in Brazil
Brio Gold (TSX: BRIO) has finished a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its C1 underground resource at its flagship Santa Luz project in Bahia State, Brazil, adding half a…
2017
BMO’s Hamilton on industrial and commodity outlook
VANCOUVER — Colin Hamilton is the managing director of commodities research at BMO Capital Markets based in London, England. He was previously head of commodities research at Macquarie Group in Australia,…
Orca drills Morondo in Côte d’Ivoire
Orca Gold (TSXV: ORG) has begun drilling its Morondo gold property in Côte d’Ivoire, as the company expands its exploration portfolio outside its flagship gold asset in Sudan. “We’ve been…
Aston Bay hunts for copper, zinc in Arctic
VANCOUVER — A newly released gravity survey at Aston Bay Holdings’ (TSXV: BAY) Aston Bay copper-zinc property on Nunavut’s Somerset Island has unveiled a potentially larger footprint of mineralization at…
Northern Vertex moves toward production at Moss in Arizona
Northern Vertex Mining (TSXV: NEE) has released a new preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Moss gold-silver mine in northwest Arizona that would double the amount of mineable material by…
Klondex tallies open-pit gold-silver resource at Fire Creek
Junior gold and silver miner Klondex Mines (TSX: KDX; NYSE-AM: KLDX) has released an initial open-pit resource that could extend the life of its Fire Creek underground mine in northern…
TNM’s most-read stories of 2017
It was another fascinating year in the mining industry, and this year’s list of most-clicked stories defies the journalistic convention of “if it bleeds, it leads”, whereby bad news generates…
Site visit: Maple Gold takes fresh look at Douay
AMOS, QUEBEC — Over the last four decades, a series of owners have carved out a resource of nearly three million ounces of gold below the 30 metres of overburden…
Editorial: Top stories of 2017
Broadly speaking, 2017 was a year of renewed optimism for many miners and mineral explorers, fuelled by stronger commodity prices and long awaited financial payoffs from belt-tightening measures taken during…
Filo sets stage for near-term copper production
VANCOUVER — Filo Mining (TSXV: FIL) is targeting production within five years at its flagship Filo del Sol copper-gold-silver project in the northern Chile-Argentina border region. The company was spun-out of…
Fireweed prepares for PEA at Tom and Jason
VANCOUVER — Shares of Fireweed Zinc (TSXV: FWZ) have been on a run — rising 58% to an all-time high of $1.06 at press time — ever since the company began…
Torex ends work contracts at ELG mine in Guerrero
Torex Gold Resources (TSX: TXG) has suspended the employment contracts for its workforce in Mexico in response to an illegal blockade at its El Limon-Guajes (ELG) gold mine, 180 km…