JOHANNESBURG – ASX-listed explorer Talisman Mining has further expanded its copper/gold exploration portfolio in Western Australia’s Bryah Basin, after reaching agreement to acquire a tenement located immediately south-west of Sandfire Resources’ Doolgunna project. Talisman acquired a 100% interest in the Halloween copper/gold project from private prospectors Max Pedri and Keith Scudds for a combination of [...]

Ivanhoe Australia Ltd (ASX: IVA) said today that the resource at its Mount Dore project had grown to 108 million tonnes grading 0.6% copper, 0.2% zinc, 0.1 grams/tonne gold, 87 ppm cobalt and 6 g/t silver. The cut-off grade was 0.25% Cu. Taking in the Merlin deposit and another project in the same region there [...]

Ivanhoe Mines (IVN.TO) said on Monday it will spend $758 million in 2010 on its Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in southern Mongolia and should have the the $3.5 billion open-pit component of the mine finished in 2012. That timetable — which envisions an early start to development and commercial production by 2013 — would seem [...]

Perth-based Empire Resources Ltd (ASX Code: ERL) announced that a twin reverse circulation and diamond core drilling program had kicked off on its promising Yuinmery Copper-Gold Project, located south of Sandstone in Western Australia. The schedule includes three diamond holes on the Just Desserts prospects as well as an equally deep hole on the C [...]

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