MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

The project is located in Zacatecas, Mexico's second largest gold producing state.

Atlantic Gold Corp. has updated the results for its most recent resource extension drilling at its three gold projects near Halifax.

The Eagle project, where construction is 60% complete, is part of Victoria Gold’s 100%-owned Dublin Gulch gold property, about 375 km north of Whitehorse.

Troilus acquired the new land it is calling Troilus North from Emgold Mining Corp. for 3.75 million of its common shares and $250,000 in cash.

For substantive change to take hold at the company, long-term directors who have presided over value destruction and overseen technical failures of prior mine plans need to be replaced.

Parity with gold is fundamentally justified the market has been in sustained deficit and the effects of that are being borne out,” said Marcus Garvey, analyst at ICBC Standard bank

The Vancouver-based miner submitted an application to expand to 300,000 hectares its land position at the Firminho project.

Changes to Brazil’s 50-year-old mining regulations also came in effect Wednesday and include measures that make the country’s industry more competitive and sustainable.

Yellowhead is the owner of the Harper Creek copper-gold-silver project about 90 km from Kamloops, British Columbia.