Stewart Mining News Today

By Robb M. Stewart Scottie Resources has agreed to sell a production royalty to Franco-Nevada as part of a financing arrangement with the larger mining company. Scottie, which owns mineral...

Collier County’s 2023 Emergency Berm Project is expected to begin the first week of April.

Paying for beach sand in Florida is now a thing. The demand for high-quality, bright-white sand to restock eroding beaches has been so high for so long in Southwest Florida most of the easy stuff piled up naturally offshore has been tapped. Now beach towns around the state are buying sand from inland mines, trucking it to eroding shorelines, and dumping it. The goal of these multi-million efforts, like the one underway in Collier County right now, is to keep the beach in beach towns around Flori...

The notion that beachfront towns would need to pay big money for sand in Florida may seem as far-fetched as buying snow during a Rocky Mountain winter, but buying sand is becoming more common in Southwest Florida where the offshore piles of easy-to-reach white powder with the pitch-perfect squeak have been all but mined out.

Mining Stock News: AUX (TSXV: $AUX.V) (OTC: $AUXRF) DRILLS 103 G/T GOLD OVER 2.74 METRES AND 126 G/T GOLD OVER 1.1 METRES AT THE GEORGIA PROJECT, @AUXResources