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Fiore Exploration to launch drilling campaign in Chile

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Fiore Exploration CEO, Tim Warman, announced the beginning of the drilling campaign at the company’s Pampas El Peñón gold project in Chile, which covers land in the same geological environment as Yamana’s flagship El Peñón mine. Warman spoke to MINING.com last month at the 2017 Prospectors & Developers Association

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Iron ore, copper price plunge brings carnage to mining stocks

By analyst By Frik Els Mining and metals investors were offloading the sector’s big names on Wednesday after sharp drops in iron ore and copper prices over worries about the robustness of the Chinese economy and heightened tensions surrounding North Korea with President Trump sending an “armada” of US warships to the region. While gold

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Brazil suspends Belo Sun’s gold mine licence, stock collapses

By analyst By Cecilia Jamasmie A Brazilian court has once again suspended a construction licence for Canada’s Belo Sun Mining’s (TSX:BSX) Volta Grande project, expected to become the South American country’s largest gold mine. The decision, the second of its kind since 2013, represents a significant new obstacle in the way of the Toronto-based miner’s

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Alaska approves key permit for Pebble copper-gold mine, with conditions

By analyst By Cecilia Jamasmie Shares in Canadian miner Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX:NDM) were soaring Wednesday morning following Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) approval of a long-awaited land-use permit that clears the way for the company’s vast, but stalled Pebble copper-gold-silver project. The permit, issued late Tuesday, allows Northern Dynasty’s subsidiary — Pebble Limited

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