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Buenaventura's annual net income rises 12% from last year, but gold production including Yanacocha fell 17% in 2010.

Midway Gold's Spring Valley project got a boost on Thursday with the company reporting an extension of the mineralized strike zone. Midway says exploration drilling in the fourth quarter 2010 has extended the strike by 1.8 kilometres to the southwest of the previously discovered gold resource at Spring Valley, Nevada.

Wardrop’s 43-101 report suggests the mine life of the Pebble copper-gold-moly project could span from 25 to 78 years, yielding billions of […]

Vancouver-based Strongbow Exploration Inc. has begun exploring in South Carolina at its Midway gold project. Current exploration work includes geophysical and geochemical […]

Mining Weekly reports on the Vancouver-based company’s significant milestone: completing the project “very substantially” below its $260-million cost target, according to CEO […]

Gold has risen every year of the last ten and, after a short breather in January, seems to be continuing its rise. But, while many investors still view gold as the ultimate safe haven in times of change and unrest, there are some that believe returns may be better elsewhere.

Taseko Mines submitted a new plan for its Prosperity project on Monday, saying it has addressed environmental concerns that saw its last plan rejected by the Canadian federal government.

The Cree Nation and Goldcorp Inc. have signed a cooperation agreement over the Éléonore gold project in the province of Quebec, Canada. Under the agreement, signed on Monday, Goldcorp recognizes Cree rights in the area surrounding the project, and the Cree support the rights of Goldcorp. to develop the property in traditional Cree territory.

Canadian gold company Claude Resources Inc. has published a resource estimate for its Amisk property, located in northeast Saskatchewan about 20 kilometres from Flin Flon, Manitoba. The independent mineral resources statement shows indicated resources of 30,150 tonnes graded at 0.85 g/t gold and 6.17 g/t silver, and 28,653 tonnes inferred at 0.64 g/t Au and 4.01 g/t silver.