The climbing price of silver has led to renewed interest in deposits which contain this precious metal, making some current mineral producers in British Columbia look to refocusing while the mineral is so valuable.
Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (CVE:AVU), formerly Evergreen Capital Ltd., is a junior exploration company based in Vancouver, Canada. The Company focuses on a variety of resources, particularly copper-zinc and tungsten deposits in Portugal, and silver-lead-zinc-gold deposits in Kosovo. The Company currently holds four licenses and one application in Portugal through its 90%-owned subsidiary MAEPA Lda. and two licenses in Kosovo through it's 92.55-owned subsidiary Innomatik Exploration Kosovo (IEK).
While the price of silver followed gold up and up this month, teasing analysts and investors with hopes of breaking past $20 an ounce, the sometimes precious sometimes industrial metal fell hard the past two days.
Kootenay Gold (TSX-V: KTN) reported today that a new 5000 meter drill program has started athe the Promontorio project in Mexico. The drilling is focusing on targets identified in the Dorotea trend and the Promontorio pit area. Kootenay also reported on metallurical results conducted on a sample extracted from drill hole KP22 in the Pit [...]
Kootenay Gold (TSX-V:KTN) annouced today the results from surface sampling of the Dorotea Structure at its Promontorio project in Northwest Mexico. Maximum values fromt he 22 samples were 45.6g/t gold and 587 g/t silver with average values for copper, lead and zinc of 0.2%, 1.3% and 0.11% respectively. Kootenay’s CEO Jim McDonald is quoted as [...]
Overview BacTech is a publicly listed Canadian company with its shares quoted on the TSX Venture Exchange (Symbol: BM). The Company owns proprietary bacterial oxidation technology that liberates precious and base metals from difficult to treat sulphide ores and concentrates. Bacterial oxidation is a safe and environmentally friendly process. It has the advantage of improving [...]
Kootenay Gold (CVE:KTN) reported today on 5 drill holes at the Promontorio project in Sonora State, Mexico. Three of the step out holes contained high grade mineralization 1600 meters from the main PIT discovery zone. Jim McDonald, Kootenay’s CEO is quoted as saying: This structure can be traced for at least 2 kilometers northwest of [...]
By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive to Silver Investing News Is silver set to follow gold in these days of economic meltdown? Analysts maintain that with the fundamentals being sound, silver prices could shadow gold prices mainly due to investment demand and ratio play. A 2009 silver forecast report from Mumbai-based Commtrendz Risk Management Services reports that [...]
By Melissa Pistilli-Exclusive to Silver Investing News The Dow, along with other major indexes, plunged out of control Monday as investors everywhere shook off any perceived fantasy that the $700 billion bank bailout would serve as a panacea for the U.S. financial crisis. The Dow fell to 9,525.32, it’s lowest level since October 24, 2003. [...]
By Melissa Pistilli – Exclusive to Silver Investing News Recently, I attended the Sixth Annual Silver Summit in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho where investors, mining executives, industry analysts, and silver aficionados met to discuss and learn more about what’s happening in the silver market. Needless to say, it was an interesting time to be at a [...]
Wednesday, May 4, 2011