Court halts exploration at Los Andes Copper’s Chile project on potential endangered species impact  

The project now contains 423 million indicated tonnes grading 0.41 gram gold per tonne, 0.22% copper, 4.6 grams silver and 41 parts per million molybdenum.

There is a porphyry copper-molybdenum-gold system at the Espiritu SMR property.

Study shows mining has sparked "unparalleled inorganic compound diversification" like rabbittite at Lucky Strike, Utah and a handful found on smelter walls

The deal closed for C$31 million.

On the positive side, the Andean country's iron ore production grew by 66.8% when compared to the previous year.

Since the mid-1990s, the company has run a waterfowl observation and hazing program at its 182-hectare Berkeley Pit but in late 2016, several thousand snow geese died at the toxic pit.

Changes to an existing provincial law propose a new Special Mining Rate.

Victoria's government wants to spend $220 million on exploration and drill one million metres by 2023.

A “scoping report” based on 175,000 comments will be published in August 2018.