Junior Mining News

De Beers is selling diamonds for less and the industry isn’t happy

By Cecilia Jamasmie After shocking the market with a decision to start selling jewellery containing synthetic diamonds, Anglo American’s De Beers is planning to let buyers refuse some lower-quality stones. The unusual move (the world’s No.1 diamond miner is famous for requiring buyers to take what’s offered) says lots about the state of the low-end […]

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Exploration Activity Update – Silver Vista And Hackett Properties

By Ashley Cowell Glacier Lake Resources Inc. (TSXV:GLI) has completed two reconnaissance surface exploration programs on its Silver Vista and Hackett properties. The Silver Vista property is the company’s principal project and is located near Smithers, B.C., with a focus on the discovery of a large, bulk-tonnage, clastic-sediment-hosted, disseminated copper-silver deposit. The Hackett property is

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Chaarat Gold ups Kyrgyz Republic project resource by 46 pct

By Cecilia Jamasmie Chaarat Gold Holdings (LON:CGH), the company trying to buy Centerra’s Kumtor mine in the Kyrgyz Republic, has increased the mineral resource for the Tulkubash oxide gold deposit at its Chaarat gold project by 46%, based on a new and simplified geologic model. The Central Asia-focused explorer and developer, which has been carrying

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Enforcer Gold Accelerates Earn-In At Roger Gold-Copper Project

By Ashley Cowell Enforcer Gold Corp. (TSXV:VEIN) (“Enforcer” or the “Company”) is pleased to inform its shareholders that the Board of Directors has agreed to accelerate its earn-in schedule on the Roger gold-copper project, for which it recently announced an updated mineral resource estimate. The project is advantageously located 5 km north of the historic

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Goldplay Continues to Identify Additional High-grade Mineralization Near Surface at San Marcial, with Intervals up to 4 Meters at 589 gpt AgEq in Historical Core

By Anwesha Sengupta Goldplay Exploration Ltd. (TSXV:GPLY) is pleased to announce additional results from sampling of the historical core drill holes completed in 2010, on the Company’s San Marcial Project in Mexico. The Company continues to successfully identify attractive, wide, near surface high-grade mineralized zones defining a near surface target at San Marcial for future

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Spearmint Acquires the “NEBA West” Gold-Copper Prospect in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia

By Anwesha Sengupta Spearmint Resources’ (TSXV:SRJ) (“SRJ” or the “Company”) wishes to announce that it has acquired a 100 percent interest in the NEBA West gold-copper prospect totaling 920 acres. The “NEBA West prospect” is located in the Golden Triangle Gold District in British Columbia and in the direct vicinity of Aben Resources Ltd. James

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Tahoe’s Escobal mine licence to remain suspended — Guatemalan court

By Cecilia Jamasmie Precious metals miner Tahoe Resources’ (TSX:THO) (NYSE:TAHO) troubles with the communities in the countries in which operates seem far from over, especially after Guatemala’s highest court confirmed Monday the suspension of the company’s mining licence for its Escobal silver mine. The Constitutional Court’s ruling ordered the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM)

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