South America

Luna advances multiple projects in northeast Brazil

Vancouver – Working away in the relatively remote San Luis Craton of northeast Brazil, Luna Gold (LGC-V) has commissioned one gold mine, is advancing a second project to the scoping stage and holds an extensive greenfield land package in the…


Brazilian Gold looks to Tapajos

Brazilian Gold (BGC-V) wants investors to get familiar with Brazil’s Tapajos region. While the area in the north central part of the country is the largest alluvial gold district in Brazil — and third largest in the world – it has gone largely…


Largo Resources makes headway in Brazil

Largo Resources (LGO-V) acquired its Brazilian Maracas vanadium project in November 2006 and by September 2008 had taken the resource from 10 million tonnes to 23 million tonnes and completed a feasibility study. Between 2005 and 2008, the…



Malbex discovers new zone, wraps up drill program

Malbex Resources (mbg-v) wrapped up its 2010/2011 drill program at the Del Carmen gold-silver project in Argentina’s San Juan province, saying it now has enough data to calculate an initial resource estimate for the Rojo Grande target by…


Uraguay yields the results that lift B2Gold

The first results from a recent discovery in Uruguay had B2Gold (BTO-T) shares climbing the charts on Tuesday. B2 shares shot up 9% or 30¢ to $3.61 on 3.52 million shares traded after releasing assays from the country not typically known…




Peruvians protest against Bear Creek’s Santa Ana

The Peruvian government has authorized the deployment of armed military troops to southern Peru’s Puno region in response to large anti-mining protests that have blocked roads connecting the country with Bolivia.


South American Silver advances in Bolivia

Proposed changes to laws governing mines owned and operated by the Bolivian State Mining Corporation, or COMIBOL, will have no impact on South American Silver’s (SAC-T) 100%-owned Malku Khota silver-indium project, the company says.


Batero Gold's Batero-Quinchia project, 55 km north of Pereira in Risaralda department, Colombia. Photo by Batero Gold

Batero’s new Colombian results show promise

Eight drills are turning on Batero Gold’s (BAT-V)  two gold and porphyry centres at its 100%-owned Batero-Quinchia project in Colombia. The project is 20 km north of Medoro Resources’ (MRS-V) Marmato project and 100 km southeast of…


Inside the core shack at Medoro Resources' Marmato project, 120 km south of Medellin in Caldas state, Colombia. Photo by Medoro Resources

Medoro, Gran Colombia have big plans

It’s shaping up to be a busy year for Medoro Resources (MRS-T). A preliminary economic assessment of developing a large-scale, open-pit gold and silver mine at its Marmato project in Colombia is expected before the end of May, and an updated…


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