Argentina-focused junior miner Extorre Gold Mines (AMEX:XG) (TSX:XG) said early Monday morning it has agreed to be bought by Yamana Gold (TSE:YRI) (NYSE:AUY) (LON:YAU) for some $400 million, with Yamana also announcing an 18 per cent dividend increase.

Extorre Gold Mines (TSE:XG)(MKT:XG)(AMEX:XG) Wednesday provided details of a preliminary internal study for the proposed staged mine development of its Cerro Moro gold-silver project.

Extorre Gold Mines (TSE:XG)(AMEX:XG) Monday unveiled a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Cerro Moro gold-silver project in Santa Cruz province, Argentina, putting gold yield at 248,036 ounces per annum in the first five years.

Extorre Gold Mines (CVE:XG) (AMEX:XG) Thursday gave an updated NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimate for its flagship Cerro Moro project in Argentina, increasing the indicated and inferred resource categories by 46 percent and 166 percent, respectively.

Canadian silver and gold explorer Extorre (CVE:XG, AMEX:XG) said Thursday that it was looking into the implications on its business and operations of new foreign currency regulations in Argentina.

The new DFS for Aureus's New Liberty gold mine in Liberia has increased the net present value of the asset, and points to lower operating costs and improved proven plus probable reserves.

Amid declining gold prices, several miners are struggling to keep costs down, but Sacre-Coeur Minerals (CVE:SCM) (OTC:SCRMF) is not one of them. The company boasts all-in cash production costs of less than $500 an ounce at its alluvial/elluvial operations in Guyana. 

Sunridge Gold Corp. (CVE:SGC)(OTCQX:SGCNF) has done exactly what it set out to do last year in releasing a feasibility study for its Asmara project in Eritrea that minimizes the capital exposure in a challenging time for Canadian juniors, with the company now having a plan to start initial production almost one year earlier than the preliminary report. 

Jennings Capital analyst Dan Hrushewsky has highlighted what he called Asanko Gold's (TSE:AKG) "good project economics" at the Esaase gold project in Ghana, saying the company ranks first of all Canadian gold companies on its radar in terms of cash as a percentage of market cap. 

Gold, silver and antimony miner Mandalay Resources (TSE:MND) has issued a strong message of intent with a promise to pay 6% of net future revenues in dividends. Mandalay announced a dividend for the quarter of C$0.769 in line with this new policy.