Playfair encouraged by exploration at Norway copper project

The Vancouver-based miner anticipates drilling to begin early in the New Year.

The South African miner is kicking off this week its Far West gold recoveries project in Gauteng with the pumping of reclaimed tailings into the carbon-in-leach circuit, just four months into construction of the first phase.

The results have prompted a plan to continue exploration to affirm multiple local sources of bedrock gold mineralization.

Relief that an escalation in the trade war between the US and China has been avoided – at least for now – sparked a huge rally in mining stocks on Monday.

The project is located 40 km north of Baker Lake, and 32 km south of Agnico’s Meadowbank gold mine.

Jihadist militants ramp up attacks against security forces.

This year the company has added 844,000 ounces of gold in the measured and indicated category and 519,000 ounces of gold in the inferred to its total overall resource for Valentine Lake.

Detour is under pressure from two other investors, investment company Coast Capital Management L.P.and hedge fund Livermore Partners, to overhaul its board and consider a sale.

The support ship will be used at the company's Solwara 1 gold, copper and silver project, off the coast of Papua Guinea, set to be the world’s first commercial deep-sea mine.