Silver
-
GOLD-SILVER: Northern Vertex pours first gold at Moss mine
ARIZONA – Northern Vertex Mining of Vancouver has poured its first gold at the Moss mine in Mohave County. The heap leach project carries an after tax internal rate of return of 63% and net present value of US$133 million.…
-
Silver market poised for eventful year
The following is an edited release by the Washington, D.C.-based Silver Institute on silver market trends in 2018. Visit www.SilverInstitute.org for more information. Of all the metals in the periodic table, silver enjoys one of the most versatile landscapes, with its uses…
-
Golden Dawn updates resource at J&L near Revelstoke
Golden Dawn Minerals (TSXV: GOM) has updated the resource estimate for its optioned 30 sq. km J & L polymetallic project, 35 km north of Revelstoke, British Columbia. The project now contains 5.2 million measured and indicated tonnes grading 4.59 grams…
-
COPPER-SILVER: New zone discovered by Kintavar at Mitchi property
QUEBEC – Montreal’s Kintavar Exploration has discovered a new copper-silver zone north of the Sherlock zone at its Mitchi property 100 km north of the town of Mont-Laurier. The company believes the results validate the stratiform copper model in the…
-
Corvus drills toward Mother Lode PEA in Nevada
Corvus Gold (TSX: KOR; US-OTC: CORVF) is continuing to drill its 100% owned Mother Lode gold project in Nevada’s Walker Land gold belt to establish a resource estimate and preliminary economic assessment (PEA) later this year. Although International Tower Hill Mines (TSX: ITH;…
-
First Majestic bids for Primero in friendly deal
First Majestic Silver’s (TSX: FR; NYSE: AG) proposed acquisition of Primero Mining (TSX: P) and its San Dimas silver-gold mine would bring the number of its operating silver mines in Mexico to seven. Keith Neumeyer, First Majestic’s president and CEO, said…
-
GOLD-SILVER: Canamex updates PEA for Bruner
NEVADA – Canamex Gold Corp. of Vancouver has updated the preliminary economic assessment for its Bruner gold project in Nye County, Nev. The update adds 93,000 oz. of gold and 826,000 oz. of silver to the indicated resource. The base…
-
Filo sets stage for near-term copper production
VANCOUVER — Filo Mining (TSXV: FIL) is targeting production within five years at its flagship Filo del Sol copper-gold-silver project in the northern Chile-Argentina border region. The company was spun-out of Lukas Lundin’s NGEx Resources (TSX: NGQ; US-OTC: NGQRF) in mid-2016. Filo released a…
-
SILVER: Pan Am Silver says capex for La Morocha at Joaquin is reasonable US$37.8M
ARGENTINA – Pan American Silver of Vancouver has completed the prefeasibility study for the La Morocha silver deposit, part of the Joaquin project in Santa Cruz province. The study recommends a 600-t/d underground mine. The ore will be trucked to…
-
Pan American Silver confirms ‘minor’ tailings spill at Huaron in Peru
Pan American Silver (TSX: PAA; NASDAQ: PAAS) has confirmed that a small tailings spill at its Huaron underground mine in central Peru, first reported in the local press, occurred earlier this week. “The Huaron mine experienced an unintended release of tailings…
-
GOLD-SILVER: Integra planning $10M exploration program at DeLamar
IDAHO – Toronto-based Integra Resources is planning a $10-million exploration program at its DeLamar gold-silver project in the southwest part of the state next year. The 2018 program aims to test the down-dip and strike extensions of the historic high…
-
COPPER: Copper Mountain bids US$70M for Altona Mining
VANCOUVER — Copper Mountain Mining has tabled a US$70-million, all-share bid for Australia-based Altona Mining and its district-scale Cloncurry copper-gold property 95 km northeast of Mount Isa in Queensland, Australia. The company reported on Nov. 19 that it is offering Altona shareholders 0.0974 of a…
