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Kingsgate to Acquire Bowdens Silver Project

Kingsgate Consolidated Limited – ASX:KCN – (“Kingsgate”) announces that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the Bowdens silver project in New South Wales (N.S.W.), Australia from a wholly-owned subsidiary of Silver Standard Resources Inc. (“Silver Standard”) (http://www.silverstandard.com/), subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions precedent. Bowdens, located some 240km west of Sydney, is…

Science, Climate and a Load of Codswallop – A Pierpont Column

Dear Sydney Mining Club Members We are blessed to have our mate Trevor Sykes as Patron of our fine Club. Trev has generously given us permission to reproduce this article by his irrepressible colleague Pierpont who refuses to take a step back from the cut and thrust of red-headed politics and in this piece the…

Copper Hill – Potential Early Start-Up Under Investigation – Golden Cross Resources News Desk

A possible 30 million tonne start-up pit with head grades of 0.5% copper and 0.5g/t gold is being planned   Lower capital cost Faster time-line to production Water and power requirements reduced Regulatory approval process will be much less complex Higher grades, with an initial 10Mt pit at 0.50% copper and 0.66g/t gold At this…