Excellon hitting high grades and new zones at Platosa
Vancouver – Excellon Resources’ (EXN-T) Platosa test mine is still flooded and operations suspended after workers u…
Mexico and Central America
Great Panther roars in Mexico (June 05, 2008)
Guanajuato, Mexico — Great Panther Resources (GPR-T, GPRLF-O) has reopened the historic Guanajuato silver mine, wh…
Guatemalan project showing strength for Firestone
Vancouver – Firestone Ventures (FV-V) has been pulling some high-grade zinc-lead-silver core out of the ground at i…
Paramount set to redo San Miguel estimate with host of new results
VANCOUVER — Paramount Gold and Silver’s (PZG-T, PZG-X) San Miguel project has produced an impressive set of drill results over the last year, boosted in large part by the results out of the newly dis…
Dia Bras sees silver lining at Cusi
Dia Bras Exploration’s (DIB-V) shares soared 27% in trading today as it reported grades of up to 5,140 grams silver…
Avino plans bulk sample for Mexican mine
Louis Wolfin, the founder of Avino Silver & Gold Mines (ASM-V), was at a cocktail reception in Beverly Hills, chatt…
Great Panther cuts deep high-grade at Guanajuato
VANCOUVER –A few weeks before a ceremony to celebrate the reopening of the Guanajuato mine in central Mexico, Great Panther Resources (GPR-T, GPRLF-O) released another set of high-grade drill results…
Editor’s Picks: Top Stories of Week 20
The week ended May 17, the twentieth trading week of 2008, was punctuated by a massive earthquake in China’s Sichuan province that killed at least 40,000 people, left millions homeless and damaged muc…
Dispute threatens more delays for Petaquilla
VANCOUVER–The Petaquilla project in north-central Panama has long been described as one of the largest undeveloped copper deposits in the world. A dispute between proposed partners Teck Cominco (TCK-…
Canplats gains 22% on ‘Red Road’ results
VANCOUVER — The Camino Rojo discovery in Mexico is rapidly becoming an exciting story for Canplats Resources (CPQ-V).
Record quarterly revenue for Metallica
It looks like Metallica Resources (MR-T, MRB-X) is on a roll. Fast on the heels of its planned merger with New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-X) and Peak Gold( PIK-V, PIKGF-O), the Denver-based gold and silver prod…
South Koreans join Baja at El Boleo
A South Korean consortium has agreed to kick in US$435 million to help develop Baja Mining’s (BAJ-T) El Boleo copper project in Mexico, where development costs have risen about 45% to US$991 million.