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Northern Dynasty Minerals and Anglo American's Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in Alaska. Source: Northern Dynasty Minerals

Northern Dynasty’s scuffle with the EPA continues

VANCOUVER — When it comes to media campaigns and social relations in the mining world, there might not be a more interesting case study than Northern Dynasty Minerals’ (NDM-T, NAK-N) ongoing defense of its large Pebble…


Partners prove up copper potential at Pyramid project

VANCOUVER — It took less than three years and only 30 holes for Full Metal Minerals (FMM-V) and Antofagasta (ANTO-L) to define a resource at their Pyramid project in Alaska that contains more than 1.3 billion lb. copper, as well as…




A Merrill-Crowe processing plant under construction at Allied Nevada Gold's Hycroft gold mine in Nevada. Source: Allied Nevada

Allied Nevada ponders scale-back

Allied Nevada Gold (ANV-T, ANV-N) is considering a more modest proposal for expanding its Hycroft mill in Nevada, and that has dismayed the markets.


Coeur’s revamp

Idaho-based silver producer Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDM-T, CDE-N) is charting a new course to thrive in the changing and turbulent market by optimizing assets and trimming costs, while still keeping an eye out for growth.



Passport Potash CEO Joshua Bleak (centre) with colleagues at Holbrook. Photo by John Cumming.

Passport sees potash aplenty in Arizona

Is it possible to build a potash mine right beside Arizona’s treasured Petrified Forest National Park? Vancouver-based Passport Potash (PPI-V) believes so, and has in hand a new preliminary economic assessment that’s giving it the…


Capstone buys BHP’s Pinto Valley

VANCOUVER — Most of the world’s mining majors are selling non-core assets so that they can optimize key operations, shore up earnings and cut back capital outlays. The shift follows a few years of overspending spurred by commodity…


A bucket wheel excavator at BHP's Spence open pit mine in northern Chile. Source: BHP Billiton

Capstone buys Pinto Valley mine from BHP

VANCOUVER – Most of the world’s mining majors are selling non-core assets to focus on optimizing key operations, shoring up earnings, and cutting back capital outlays. The shift follows a few years of overspending spurred by commodity…


The past-producing pit at Paramount Gold and Silver's Sleeper gold-silver project in Nevada. Photo by Matthew Keevil

Site visit: Paramount stages golden revival at Sleeper

WINNEMUCCA, NEV. — For Nevada-based explorer Paramount Gold and Silver (PZG-T, PZG-X), there’s a lot to be said for making something old new again. In mid-2010 the company picked up the past-producing Sleeper gold-silver mine, which…


Northern Vertex Mining's Moss gold project in Arizona. Source: Northern Vertex Mining

Northern Vertex plans for pilot production at Moss

VANCOUVER — Northern ­Vertex Mining (NEE-V) wants to get into production as soon as possible, and the junior has taken a big step in this direction with a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its Moss project in Arizona that lays…


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