Yamana will build $116m Brazil gold project, updates Agua Rica

Canada's Yamana Gold will start construction around mid-year at its Ernesto/Pau-a-pique gold project, in Brazil, and expects to start first production at the mine in 2012, the Toronto-based miner announced on Tuesday. The firm also unveiled the...

Outgoing Barrick exec Davidson to join Yamana board

Canada's Yamana Gold has appointed Alex Davidson as a director of the company, it announced on Monday. Davidson was previously executive VP for exploration and corporate development at the world's biggest gold-miner, Barrick Gold, where he had...

Lots of room for organic growth – Yamana chief

Toronto-based Yamana Gold expects to add around 500 000 gold-equivalent ounces to its annual production in the next four years or so, as it builds new mines and expands output at others. Yamana, which bought rival Meridian Gold and the smaller...