Liberty Star pays federal fees for Arizona projects

Liberty Star Minerals paid the Bureau of Land Management US $18,600 for 93 unpatented federal lode mining claims covering 1,594.68 acres within the Hay Mountain Project in Cochise County, Arizona. The payment included six claims comprising 320 acres within the Red Rock Canyon Gold property. Additional Liberty Star fee payments for Mineral Exploration Permit lands due throughout the year to…

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Patriot Gold to purchase Wyoming gold project

Exploration company GFG Resources has signed a definitive agreement for the sale of its Rattlesnake Hills gold project in central Wyoming to Patriot Gold Vault for an aggregate consideration of C$3.3 million. The district-scale project comprises of 1,573 unpatented lode mining claims as well as eight Wyoming State mining leases covering an area of approximately 30,400 acres. Four significant zones…

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Idaho Copper to update project PEA

Idaho Copper has recently hired three mining consulting and engineering firms to commence comprehensive core scanning and ore sorting programs designed to result in an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its copper-molybdenum-silver deposit in Idaho. “We are pleased to continue technical work for the CuMo project, and our goal is to have updated results to share with the public…

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End of summer to-do list: Pay mining claim maintenance fees

By Eric L. Martin For many Americans, the last half of August brings into intense focus all that the end of summer entails: back to school, Labor Day barbeques, etc. However, to those in the western U.S. mining industry, the last half of August also implicates the critical task of ensuring that unpatented federal mining claims do not become automatically…

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U.S. DOJ, Hudbay get split decision on Rosemont

On May 12, Hudbay Minerals confirmed that it and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) received a split decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirming the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona’s decision in July 2019 on its Rosemont copper project in Arizona. The decision states the Court of Appeals agreed with the…

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