United States
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ZINC: Follow-up hole cuts more polymetallic mineralization at Wolfden’s Pickett Mountain
MAINE – Wolfden Resources of Thunder Bay, Ont., has drilled a second hole into the high grade Footwall zone and – like the first one – it encountered polymetallic mineralization in Penobscot County. Assays are pending. The new hole –…
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DRILLING: Epiroc moves US head office to technology hub
DENVER – Epiroc has relocated its U.S. headquarters from Commerce City to Broomfield within the Denver, Colo., metropolitan area. The company joins a dynamic business community in a tech corridor known as the “Rocky Mountain Silicon Valley.” The move to…
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Global Energy Metals expands cobalt footprint in Nevada
Global Energy Metals (TSXV: GEMC; US-OTC: GBLEF) struck an option agreement in January with Nevada Sunrise Gold (TSXV: NEV) to acquire 85% of the historic Lovelock cobalt mine and nearby Treasure Box properties – both of which contain battery minerals including cobalt, nickel…
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GOLD: Barrick, Newmont launch Nevada Gold Mines
NEVADA – Barrick Gold Corp. of Toronto and Newmont Goldcorp Corp. of Denver launched their new partnership on July 1, 2019, in this state. The joint venture (61.5% Barrick and 38.5% Newmont) will operate as Nevada Gold Mines LLC. The…
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GOLD: SSR Mining expands Nevada landholding with property buy from Newmont JV
NEVADA – Vancouver-based SSR Mining, formerly Silver Standard Resources, has expanded its landholding in Nevada, acquiring approximately 8,900 hectares contiguous to its Marigold mine, nearly doubling the mine’s land position to 19,800 hectares. The newly acquired land package, most of which was owned…
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US Dept. of Commerce recommends uranium quota: Bloomberg report
Shares of Energy Fuels (TSX: EFR) and Ur-Energy (TSX: URE) moved higher on a report from Bloomberg that the U.S. Department of Commerce is recommending that Washington take measures to protect domestic uranium production. The June 20 article, quoting three anonymous sources briefed on…
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GOLD: Blackrock to grow Silver Cloud project
NEVADA – Blackrock Gold announced that, together with its namesake U.S. subsidiary, it has entered into a purchase agreement for 20 mining claims directly adjacent to its Silver Cloud project in Elko County. Silver Cloud is a 4,537-hectare claim block…
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COBALT-SILVER: Canada Cobalt Re-2OX technology to be tested at a Nevada mine
NEVADA – Canada Cobalt Works, headquartered in Coquitlam, B.C., continues development of its environmentally friendly Re-2OX process to recover cobalt and silver from tailings. The process has been tested successfully on the tails from the company’s Castle silver-cobalt mine in…
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Integra de-risks DeLamar with resource update
In less than 18 months since acquiring the DeLamar project in southwestern Idaho, Integra Resources (TSXV: ITR; US-OTC: IRRZF) has upgraded 90% of its global resource from the inferred to the measured and indicated category, and the company is on track to…
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COPPER: Taseko’s Florence mine reaches commercial grade leach solution
ARIZONA – Taseko Mines of Vancouver says after running the test facility for only six months, the leach solution from its Florence in situ copper mine has reached commercial grade – 1,600 ppm of copper in solution. The project is…
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COPPER-GOLD: Northern Dynasty funds next steps at Pebble project
ALASKA – Vancouver-based Northern Dynasty Minerals, sole owner of the Pebble project 300 km from Anchorage, has arranged a US$5 million bought deal financing that will allow it to continue the 2019 field program and complete the environmental impact statement…
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GOLD: Seabridge to acquire Goldstorm project
NEVADA – Seabridge Gold of Toronto has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the Goldstorm project from Mountain View Gold Corp. The sale price will be paid with 25,000 common shares of Seabridge. The Goldstorm project is located…
