December 14, 2018 Wheaton resolves tax dispute with Canada Revenue Agency, shares surge 14% The reassessments were related to income generated by Wheaton’s wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries operating outside of Canada.
December 14, 2018 Vancouver’s Falcon Gold searches for gold, silver and copper in Argentina The company completed its 2018 exploration program on the Esperanza Resources mineral concessions.
December 14, 2018 Nigeria’s first gold refinery scheduled to be ready next year The refinery will initially be able to produce 3 metric tons of gold each month, and 1 ton of silver.
December 13, 2018 OK2 buys three mines in Scandinavia Together with the acquisition, the Vancouver-based miner will change its name to Norra Metals Corp.
December 12, 2018 Power Ore buys former Falconbridge Opemiska complex The complex produced more than 1.0 billion lb. of copper and almost 206,000 oz. of gold.
December 12, 2018 Casa discovers new zone at Pitman in BC Prospecting, rock and soil geochemical sampling graded as high as 231 grams per tonne silver, 2.83% copper and 6.15% zinc at the Dragon Tale zone over an area measuring 1.4…
December 11, 2018 Rio’s partner in Aussie copper project says nothing great about it so far Antipa Minerals reported "weak mineralization" in a target area that is part of the Citadel project, which has been touted as likely rich in copper.
December 10, 2018 Newcrest options Cornerstone’s Miocene property Miocene is in the Atacama and Antofagasta regions of Chile, where Cornerstone is targeting epithermal gold-silver and porphyry gold-copper deposits.
December 10, 2018 Fortuna Silver exercises right to acquire majority stake in Mexican silver project The Vancouver-based miner has to spend $8 million in qualifying expenditures and complete a preliminary economic assessment.
December 5, 2018 Candelaria becomes sole owner of the Pinos gold project in Mexico The project is located in Zacatecas, Mexico's second largest gold producing state.
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