Equinox Minerals would consider selling some of Lundin Mining's assets in order to clear off debt, the company's CEO said in a conference call to analysts on Thursday. Equinox has bid CAD$4.8 billion in a challenge to Inmet Mining's friendly merger with Lundin, but needs a $3.2 billion bridge loan, according to the story by Bloomberg. “We would consider asset sales in the context of non-core, non-copper assets,” Craig Williams, chief executive of the Perth-based company, said today. Equinox may sell Lundin’s Zinkgruvan zinc mine in Sweden, he said.

HudBay Minerals posted some big gains in its fourth-quarter and year-end financials, the Toronto-based miner reported on Wednesday. Net earnings in Q4 2010 more than tripled to $24.5 million, compared to $7.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. Year-end numbers were also impressive, with net earnings of $73 million — a 475% increase over 2009 after adjusting for gains on the sale of investments, the company stated.

Bayfield Ventures Corp. announced a $5 million brokered private placement Wednesday, with proceeds going towards the company's Rainy River gold project in northern Ontario. The deal is expected to close on April 7. The 100%-owned Rainy River property contains three mineralized claim blocks. The March 2010 NI 43101 report showed 2.37 million indicated ounces of gold at 1.3 g/t, with an additional 2.66 million ounces inferred at 1.2 g/t Au.

China's move on Kalahari Minerals could flush out other bidders for the uranium miner but even long-term suitor Rio Tinto may balk at getting into a bidding war with such a formidable foe.

Lake Shore Gold (LSG.TO) expects to double the size of its gold resource over the next 12 months and aims to produce about 300,000 ounces a year of gold by 2013, said one of the junior miner's top executives on Tuesday. "We don't think it's unreasonable to think that we may have found a new century of gold mining in a century-old mining camp," said Mark Utting, Lake Shore's head of investor relations.

Northern Star Resources (ASX:  NST) said the resource inventory at its Paulsens Gold Mine in Western Australia has increased to 226,000 ounces while […]

Northgate Minerals Corp.’s Kemess South gold mine in British Columbia is about to close. In fact, it might be happening as we […]

Romarco Minerals is continuing to identify mineralization at the Haile Gold Mine in South Carolina. The company's latest drill results show continued growth in the mineralized system, which is open in all directions and at depth: Drilling between South Pit and Ledbetter continues to identify mineralization between the two proposed pits. RCT-49 returned 31.8 meters of 17.3 g/t gold, including a high-grade intercept of 7.6 meters of 66.9 g/t gold.

Laconia Resources, a Perth-based exploration company, purchased Jabiru Metals Limited (ASX: JML) equity in the Lennons Find Base Metal project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Laconia made the announcement on Wednesday in a statement. Laconia also agreed to purchase Shaw River Resources (ASX: SRR) 100% interest in the nearby Yandicoogina project, located less than 10km along strike from the Lennons Find project.