Colorado School of Mines tops salary potential list

Several weeks ago we published a story about South Dakota School of Mines graduates commanding higher starting salaries ($56,700) than Harvard graduates ($54,100). We all wondered where Colorado School of Mines grads fared in that scheme of things.

We now have that update: In this region of the country, at least, CSM ranks No. 1 at $64,200.

Read more

Golden Minerals says gold, silver production increases at Mexican mine

Golden Minerals Co. (TSE:AUM)(MKT:AUMN) shares rose above two per cent Thursday after reporting higher gold and silver production at its Velardena operations in Mexico. Shares rose 2.51 per cent to $4.50 each on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The Colorado-based (Golden) natural resource miner, which has producing mine assets in Mexico and Peru, said third-quarter silver production rose 28 per cent to 120,000 ounces. Gold production grew 28 per cent to 1,900 ounces.
Read more

LKA Donates Historic Ute-Ulay Town Site to Hinsdale County

LKA International, Inc. has signed a deed to convey the historic Ute-Ulay town site to Hinsdale County and thereby preserve one of the only remaining mining camps left in Colorado.

Read more

CO Keystone Center tries to mediate AK mine dispute

The group aiming to develop a giant copper and gold mine in the Bristol Bay area is vetting the scientific studies that underlie its work, turning to a Colorado-based non-profit with expertise in environmental conflict resolution. But critics of the proposed Pebble mine are having little of it.

Six days of scientific review meetings organized by the Keystone Center kicked off Tuesday in Anchorage at the Consortium Library on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus. Keystone describes the effort as an in-depth, objective review of Pebble's science. Mine opponents counter that the studies are lacking and that the effort is mainly designed to sway public opinion.

Read more

Gold companies lead Colorado stocks rebound

Golden Star Resources, a Littleton-based gold mining company, ranked as the state's top performing stock during the third quarter with a 69.8 percent return. Golden Star, which operates two mines in Ghana, is a beneficiary of the renewed interest in gold, as is Newmont Mining, the state's largest company in market value, which rose 15.5 percent.

Read more

Haunted Mines Open for the Halloween season

Thursday marks the first day of the Haunted Mines season.

 

As the lore goes, 100 miners died mysteriously in the depths of a Colorado gold mine after the greedy mine owner suspected they were stealing. Now, those miners haunt that old shaft.

 

Read more

 

 

Franklin Mining To Develop Clear Creek County Mine

Franklin Mining has decided that because of the ever increasing value of Ore, that it is supremely advantageous at this time to execute on the opportunity to develop the Company’s mining property in Clear Creek County, Colorado
redOrbit (http://s.tt/1nTJf)