Volume 100 Number 17 Jun 9 - 15, 2014

A view of Rio Tinto's Simandou iron ore project in Guinea. Credit: Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto’s US$20B iron ore mine plan in Guinea

VANCOUVER — A decade after mega-miner Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) was awarded the world-class Simandou iron-ore concessions in Guinea, West Africa, it looks like the stage has been set for what would be the largest…



The Cerro Pelon deposit, 3 km from Alamos Gold's Mulatos gold mine in northwestern Mexico's Sonora state. Credit: Alamos Gold

Alamos adding Cerro Pelon and La Yaqui to the mix

Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) has scored a major victory at its Mulatos gold mine operation in Mexico with the acquisition of surface rights for two satellite gold deposits that could add low-cost production growth as early as 2016.


Calibre Mining president and CEO Greg Smith (left) and senior geologist Marc Cianci at the Eastern Borosi gold-silver project in northeast Nicaragua. Credit: Calibre Mining

Iamgold becomes Calibre’s third partner in Nicaragua

Calibre Mining (TSXV: CXB; US-OTC: CXBMF) saw its shares surge 43% after reporting that Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) had signed an option to spend US$10.9 million to earn up to 70% of the junior’s Eastern Borosi gold–silver project…



A mine tour of Pershing Gold's Relief Canyon project, a past-producing mine with three open pits and a fully permitted and operational heap-leach facility, about 153 km north of Reno in Pershing County.

Relief Canyon grows under Pershing

Steve Alfers cut his teeth as a transactions lawyer on international mining deals and as a privatization specialist working in some of the world’s most challenging jurisdictions — including Mongolia, Russia, Ukraine, Zambia and…


An aerial view of KWG Resources' mining camp at the Big Daddy project, located in the McFaulds Lake area, in the Ring of Fire. Credit: KWG Resources

Editorial: Ring of Fire funding – A Wynne-win?

In a rare turn, mining has emerged as an issue in a provincial election campaign in Ontario: the ruling Liberal party is promising to unilaterally pump up to $1 billion into infrastructure development in the remote Ring of Fire chromite camp in…


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