Seabridge goes deeper at KSM in BC
Seabridge Gold’s (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) chairman and CEO Rudi Fronk says the company anticipates good news from the exploration program it has launched at its KSM gold–copper project in northwestern B.C.
Industrial/Specialty Minerals
First Quantum to buy Lumina Copper for $470M
First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM; LSE: FQM) has made a friendly $470-million takeover offer for Lumina Copper (TSXV: LCC; US-OTC: LCPRF), ending a sale process for the junior and its Taca Taca copper–gold–molybdenum project in…
New ideas pan out for Mega Precious at Monument Bay
VANCOUVER — From new holes to old cores, and from gold to tungsten, Mega Precious Metals (TSXV: MGP; US-OTC: MPRXF) has been uncovering potential at the Monument Bay project in northeastern Manitoba.
Augusta says yes to sweetened Hudbay takeover
VANCOUVER — After a drawn-out takeover battle that tested proposed new regulations on the tenure of shareholder rights plans in B.C., Augusta Resource (TSX: AZC; NYSE-MKT: AZC) has agreed to a sweetened takeover bid from Hudbay Minerals…
Tentative deal could end lengthy South African platinum strike
VANCOUVER — An agreement in principle looks set to end the longest strike in South Africa’s mining history, 21 weeks after more than 70,000 platinum miners walked off the job demanding a near tripling of wages.
Editorial: Ring road of fire?
The surprisingly strong majority win by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Liberal party in the provincial election in mid-June has given a boost to potential infrastructure development in the Ring of Fire chromite and base metals camp in…
Victory Nickel has the frac sand plan
Victory Nickel (TSX: NI; US-OTC: VNCKF) didn’t set out to be part of the premium frac sand business.
Editorial: Ring of Fire funding – A Wynne-win?
In a rare turn, mining has emerged as an issue in a provincial election campaign in Ontario: the ruling Liberal party is promising to unilaterally pump up to $1 billion into infrastructure development in the remote Ring of Fire chromite camp in…
Arianne Phosphate grows Lac Paul
Arianne Phosphate (TSXV: DAN; US-OTC: DRRSF) says one of the world’s largest greenfield phosphate-rock projects has just gotten bigger, with near-surface inferred resources added from the Lac à Paul deposit’s Nicole zone in…
Latin American Minerals dreams big in Paraguay
One of South America’s most isolated countries — ruled by a series of authoritarian governments for most of the twentieth century — has seen virtually no modern mineral exploration.
Orbite eyes high-grade alumina production in 2015
Orbite Aluminae (TSX: ORT; OTCQX: EORBF) says its high-purity alumina (HPA) plant in Cap-Chat, Que., is on track to reach commercial production early next year.
Ucore scores major victory in Alaska
The Alaska State Legislature has unanimously passed a bill that authorizes the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) to issue bonds of up to US$145 million to finance some of the infrastructure costs of Ucore Rare…