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Metalor gains ‘Fairmined Refiner’ status

The Colombia-based Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) has given refiner Metalor its ‘Fairmined Refiner’ designation, making the firm the first London Bullion Market Association (LBMA)-approved refiner to hold that status.


In western Turkey, looking south from Alamos Gold's Agi Dagi gold project towards its Kirazli gold project, 3 km away. Credit: Alamos Gold

Alamos scores Agi Dagi EIA approval, but Kirazli in limbo

VANCOUVER — It’s been a rocky permitting road for producer Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) in Turkey given the legal troubles surrounding its Kirazli epithermal gold project. But the company looks to have made some…


Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Miedzi Copper loses Poland concessions

Ross Beaty isn’t the type of businessman who normally airs his grievances in public. But when two of his copper concessions in Poland were apparently revoked by the Polish government, he felt he had no choice.


Aegean Metals Group president and CEO Eric Roth (far right) speaks to geologists at the Hot Maden gold-copper project in Turkey, 1,050 km east of Istanbul. Credit: Aegean Metals Group

Eric Roth’s Aegean Metals sees upside in Turkey

VANCOUVER — It was a quiet couple of years for Eric Roth after Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY) snapped up his Extorre Gold Mines and its Cerro Moro project in Argentina for US$400 million in mid-2012. But now as president…


The kiln under construction at Largo Resources' Maracas Vanadium project in Brazil's Bahia state, on which Anglo Pacific Group holds a 2% net smelter return royalty. Credit: Largo Resources

New management at Anglo Pacific shifts focus to royalties

After graduating with a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, Julian Treger launched his career working for Lord Rothschild as an in-house corporate financier managing a portfolio of public and private equity…


Alacer Gold's Copler gold mine in east-central Turkey, 120 km southwest of the city of Erzincan. Credit: Alacer Gold

Alacer plans sulphide expansion at Copler

VANCOUVER — For US$660 million Alacer Gold (TSX: ASR; US-OTC: ALIAF) could add a sulphide circuit to its heap-leach Copler (“Çöpler” in Turkish) gold mine in Turkey, an expansion that should pay for itself in the…



A drill site at Avala Resources' Timok gold project in Serbia, 270 km southeast of Belgrade. Credit:  Avala Resources

Avala’s open-pit mine plan for Timok in Serbia

VANCOUVER — Serbia has received attention lately as an under-explored jurisdiction for copper porphyry targets, but for junior Avala Resources (TSXV: AVZ) the story is all about gold. To this end, the company has just tabled an…



Pilot Gold geologist April Barrios examines a zone of phyllic alteration and quartz veining cross-cutting potassic-altered granodiorite in the central part of the Valley porphyry soil anomaly, at the TV Tower project in Turkey. Credit: Pilot Gold

Another Turkish porphyry for Pilot and Teck

VANCOUVER — With its first hole into a new target, Pilot Gold (TSX: PLG; US-OTC: PLGTF) has found a copper–gold porphyry at its TV Tower project in Turkey, reinforcing the district-scale potential of the large land package.




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