Industrial/Specialty Minerals

Pacific Potash keeps climbing

VANCOUVER — Brazil is the fastest growing potash market in the world, and Vancouver-based Pacific Potash (PP-V) is hoping it can help the country sate some of its potash hunger domestically.



Karnalyte snags $300 million

The last six months have been very kind to Karnalyte Resources (KRN-T) and its massive Wynyard carnallite potash project in Saskatchewan.


Mediterranean’s Ecclestone sees money in antimony

Mediterranean Resources (MNR-T) is best known for advancing gold deposits in northeastern Turkey, but the junior also has its eye on the antimony market. This week it picked up two past-producing deposits of the metal in Spain and has plans to…


Workers dig a trench at Focus Ventures and Stonegate Agricom's Mantaro phosphate project in Peru. Source: Focus Ventures

Focus Ventures adds phosphate project

Peru may be best known for its rich endowment of gold and silver deposits, but the South American nation could also become a player in producing phosphates, Focus Ventures (FCV-V) believes.


Arianne Resources' Lac  Paul phosphate project. Source: Arianne Resources

Arianne to focus on high-grade phosphate

It’s been a busy month for Arianne Phosphate (DAN-V, DRRSF-O). In mid-May the Quebec-based junior officially changed its name from Arianne Resources, and announced it had sold off its non-phosphate assets to focus on its flagship open-pit…



Athabasca Minerals' Kearl aggregate mine, 105 km northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Source: Athabasca Minerals

Athabasca finds aggregate demand remains strong

VANCOUVER — Despite recent uncertainty surrounding production in Canada’s oil sands — due to issues like volatile crude prices and ongoing pipeline debates — growth remains the word for supply-oriented companies in the…


Husky Energy's Sunrise oilsands project under construction in Alberta. The project is two-thirds away from completion, according to the company.

Husky ready to make the Sunrise

There are an estimated 170 billion barrels of oil in Alberta’s oilsands, but getting them all out is proving to be a costly venture. As with the metal mining industry, mining for oil has been subjected to steep cost inflation over the…



Allana closes in on Ethiopian potash development

VANCOUVER — Toronto-based junior Allana Potash (AAA-T) sees 2013 as a pivotal year for its wholly owned Dallol potash project in Ethiopia’s northeastern Danakil Depression, and since filing its last mining application in late April,…


A drill rig at Mason Graphite's Lac Guret graphite project in Quebec's North Shore region. Source: Mason Graphite

PEA shows Lac Guret has graphite potential

VANCOUVER — For just $90 million, Mason Graphite (LLG-V) could transform its Lac Guéret project in Quebec’s North Shore into a mine producing 50,000 tonnes of graphite concentrate annually for $390 per tonne, a cost that…


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