Industrial/Specialty Minerals


A new play on Brazilian potash

For investors hungry for a new way to play rising food prices through potash juniors, a new avenue with experienced management should soon be tradable in Toronto. Toronto-based Rio Verde Minerals, currently a privately held company, plans to…


At Reunion Gold's Matthews Ridge manganese project in Guyana. Photo by Reunion Gold

Fennell’s Reunion seeks Guyanese manganese

As industrial metal prices continue to rise from their 2008 lows, Vancouver-based Reunion Gold (RGD-V) has refocused its exploration efforts away from precious metals and on to past-producing manganese mines in Guyana.







Pele Mountain Resources' president and CEO Alan Shefsky (centre) with directors in Elliot Lake, Ont. Photo by Pele Mountain Resources

Pele Mountain adds REEs to the mix

When Pele Mountain Resources (GEM-V) completed a scoping study in 2007 on its Eco Ridge mine project in Elliot Lake, Ont., the company didn’t even bother to include the deposit’s rare earth elements as a byproduct of the project’s planned…


Surface mineralization at the northeastern extension of Apella Resources' Lac Dore vanadium project in Quebec.

Spotlight on vanadium

Lithium has grabbed much of the headlines over the last few years when the subject of key metals of the future comes up. But more and more investors are paying attention to vanadium for the metal’s unique attribute of fitting in with two future…


Cliffs Natural Resources' Black Thor chromite project near McFauld's Lake in northern Ontario. Photo by Cliffs Natural Resources

Cliffs says Ontario’s electricity prices are too high

Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N) is warning that high electricity rates in Ontario are forcing it to widen its search for a location to build a proposed ferrochrome production facility that will use a closed electric arc furnace to treat ore…


New play on Brazilian potash set to arrive

For investors hungry for a new way to play rising food prices through potash juniors, a new avenue with experienced management should soon be arriving in Toronto.


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