EXPLORATION

Seafield heading toward 2m ounces gold at Miraflores, looks to 100k mining op

Tuesday , 31 Jan 2012
Since taking on Miraflores a couple years ago Seafield has doubled the gold count. Now it is ready to outline the project as a ~100,000 ounce per year mine.

MOD awaits assays from first Sams Creek drill holes

Tuesday , 31 Jan 2012
MOD Resources detailed the active search programme it is carrying out on New Zealand's largest undeveloped gold prospect - Sams Creek - in its latest quarterly report, released yesterday.

Apogee eyes new oxide potential at Pulacayo silver project

Monday , 30 Jan 2012
Deeper silver in sulphides it knows well. But now, for the first time, drilling results from near surface oxides are also showing promise for Apogee Silver.

Indian companies to bid for gold, copper in Afghanistan

Monday , 30 Jan 2012
Keen to get an edge over rivals, an Indian consortium is seeking to explore for other minerals in the war-torn country, especially gold and copper.

Commerce Resources flies on REO intercepts in Quebec

Friday , 27 Jan 2012
For Commerce Resources, rare earth oxide intercepts proved hot with investors on Friday.

Tampakan copper/gold mineral resource estimate hiked

Friday , 27 Jan 2012
Indophil Resources NL provided Friday the revised mineral resource estimate for the $5.9-billion Tampakan project, confirming its ranking as one of the world's biggest undeveloped copper-gold deposits.

Indonesia confirms revocation of Sumber Mineral/Arc Exploration JV exploration permit

Thursday , 26 Jan 2012
Energy Minister said the government will revoke Sumber Mineral's/Arc Exploration's exploration permit, whose project on Sumbawa island has been hit by violent protests in which two people have died.

Silver Predator hits high-grade silver in Yukon

Thursday , 19 Jan 2012
A couple of intercepts border on bonanza grade for Silver Predator in drilling results from the Plata project.

Crazy Horse ratchets up economics on porphyry project with met-test sweetener

Thursday , 19 Jan 2012
On the back of new metallurgical testing Crazy Horse says a magnetite credit will contribute a whole lot more to its Taysan copper-gold project.

Northern Freegold outlines 100mt gold-polymetallic deposit in Yukon

Thursday , 19 Jan 2012
Northern Freegold brought home one of the bigger disseminated gold-polymetallic deposits in the Yukon with its latest resource estimate.

Erdene gets deeper high-grade gold in expanding epithermal system

Wednesday , 18 Jan 2012
Erdene Resource Development outlines new drilling results from its Altan Nar project in Mongolia suggesting higher gold grades at depth.

OZ Minerals set for big spend on Carrapateena

Wednesday , 18 Jan 2012
The Australian miner says it plans to spend about A$60m on the Carrapateena copper-gold project, about half of which will be used for exploration

Avion Gold adds heft to gold resource base

Tuesday , 17 Jan 2012
In back to back updates of its chief exploration projects in Mali and Burkina Faso, Avion Gold outlines new resources

REE junior jumps on exploration results

Tuesday , 17 Jan 2012
Ucore Rare Metals plowed through the market gates on Monday following the release of rare earth exploration results from Alaska.

Unigold drills 73m at 2.36 g/t gold - shares skyrocket

Monday , 16 Jan 2012
A strong gold exploration drill result at a project in the Dominican Republic propelled Unigold shares to lofty heights on Monday

China announces its largest rough diamond discovery in 30 years

Friday , 13 Jan 2012
The Liaoning province's Geology and Minerals Exploration Bureau has announced the discovery of a million carat rough diamond deposit and claims the diamonds are purer than those found in South Africa

Silver-gold smoker drilled by Brixton in B.C.

Friday , 06 Jan 2012
A hot drillhole showing strong gold and silver grades with base metals helped catapult Brixton Metals' shareprice more than 50 percent.

Big La Arena gold resource boost for Rio Alto in Peru

Thursday , 05 Jan 2012
As it ramps up gold production at its La Arena project in Peru, Rio Alto Mining substantially increases gold resources.

Arc Exploration's Indonesian gold permit suspended

Wednesday , 04 Jan 2012
The positive advance of Indonesia as a place in which to explore after the disaster of the Busang gold project scandal may have now slipped back a cog.

Baja Mining eyes $1bn manganese upside at Boleo

Wednesday , 04 Jan 2012
Baja Mining takes a step closer to making manganese a major production stream at its Boleo copper-zinc-cobalt project project in Mexico.

Castle Peak cuts high grade gold in Ghana

Tuesday , 03 Jan 2012
The final hole of its phase I program has kicked up some tempting gold grades for Castle Peak Mining on its properties in Ghana.

Gold Anomaly sees growing gold system in PNG Highlands

Friday , 30 Dec 2011
The Papua New Guinea and Brazilian gold explorer said Friday it has potential for "multiple major mineralisation events" at its Crater Mountain prospect

Australian explorer denies involvement in deadly Indonesian gold mine protest

Wednesday , 28 Dec 2011
Australia's Arc Exploration moved to correct some misreporting in the media about protests that resulted in death and injuries over claims of gold mining taking place on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia.

Gold, REE, lithium, base metals: mining booming in Quebec- Beauregard

Saturday , 24 Dec 2011
While many jurisdictions are working hard to prevent mining or mineral exploration, the province of Quebec is encouraging it. Interview with The Gold Report.

Metallurgical testing opens up potential for NSW silver project

Wednesday , 21 Dec 2011
Silver Mines Ltd says recent test work indicates its Webbs silver project may be amenable to cyanide extraction which offers potential for production of silver doré.

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