Developers

SilverCrest goes bonanza underground at Santa Elena

SilverCrest Mines’ (TSX.V:SVL) has announced bonanza grades from underground exploration at its Santa Elena mine in Sonora, Mexico.

The project, which has an established open pit mine life of 6.5, is in the midst of an expansion plan that will see reserves and mine life grow.

The company has completed 87 of a planned 100 holes, which are intended to convert inferred and indicated resources to probable reserves, in addition to expanding underground resources. Read more

Prodigy Gold: The Magino Mine project as you’ve never seen it before

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Brian Maher, CEO: We’re standing approximately in the middle of what will be our future open pit mining operation here at Magino. Read more

Prophecy Platinum Wellgreen Animation: A very large precious and base metals resource

Prophecy Platinum’s Wellgreen deposit in Canada’s Yukon Territory contains a very large and rich base and precious metals resource. Read more

La Joya continues to add silver ounces to SilverCrest bottom line

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Eric Fier at SilverCrest Mine’s La Joya project (transcribed from video): SilverCrest is an operating company now, in Mexico. As we grow Santa Elena and the expansion plan, the next part of the growth pattern is La Joya. Read more

Prophecy Platinum co-founder: We’re de-risking an enormous PGM-Ni project

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Prophecy Platinum Corp. (TSX-V: NKL, OTC-QX: PNIKF, Frankfurt: P94P) is an exploration company focused on developing platinum group metals and nickel sulphide projects. The company’s flagship Wellgreen Ni-Cu-PGM Nickel property is a unique base and precious metals project in Canada’s Yukon Territory with an NI 43-101 compliant report: 289 million tonnes in inferred resources with 0.38% Ni, 0.35% Cu, 1.18 g/t PGM+Au and 14 million tonnes indicated at 0.69% Ni, 0.62% Cu, 2.25 g/t PGM+Au. Executive editor Doug Hadfield spoke with co-founder Greg Hall at the World Resource Investment Conference in June.

Hard Creek Nickel, Tournigan ready for next steps, high grade concentrate

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Hard Creek Nickel Corp. (TSX: HNC) is developing the Turnagain Nickel deposit, a giant nickel sulphide deposit in north central British Columbia, Canada. A Preliminary Economic Assessment announced last year models initial production of 52 million pounds of nickel and 2.8 million pounds of cobalt per year in a high quality, 18% nickel concentrate for sale to smelters. Production ramps up in year six to 97 million pounds of nickel plus 5.3 million pounds of cobalt per year for the next sixteen years. That would make the company’s financial metrics very competitive with many other large greenfields nickel project in the world. Executive editor Doug Hadfield spoke with CEO Mark Jarvis about what’s required next to make Turnagain into a mine.

Video: REBgold cleans while processing gold

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REBgold’s proprietary bioleaching process recovers valuable metals from crushed ore, neutralizes sulphides causing acid rock drainage and stabilizes toxic elements such as arsenic and cadmium. Here’s how the process works: Read more

Avanti Mining Hits the Jackpot

And POW, just like that everything seems changed for Avanti Mining. The company announced today that it has entered into a mandate letter with five lenders for up to $640 million of project financing to develop the Kitsault molybdenum mine. Read more

Tamerlane Ventures Live @ PDAC 2012

Tamerlane Ventures Inc. is an exploration and development mining company with advanced base metal development projects in Canada and Peru. The Company is working towards bringing the world-class zinc-lead Pine Point Property back into production in Northwest Territories, Canada, and developing its Los Pinos heap leach copper project in Peru.

Resource Intelligence’s Executive Editor, Doug Hadfield, spoke with CEO Mike Willett at PDAC in March 2012.

In April (following this interview) the company reported that it had filed an updated NI 43-101 Technical Report for its R-190 and five other deposits at the Pine Point project. Investors can find out more about Pine Point and the company’s other resource projects at http://www.tamerlaneventures.com/

 

Dia Bras Exploration Live @ PDAC 2012

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Dia Bras Exploration Inc. is a Canadian-based mining and exploration corporation with gold, silver, lead, copper and zinc properties in northern Mexico and Peru.

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Quest: An Advanced Rare Earth Investment

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What materials make wind turbines turn? Why are hybrid vehicles so clean? And what makes smart phones so smart? For all these modern technologies, and more, there are rare earth elements. Read more