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Shawn Ryan (left) receives the Bill Dennis award for prospecting success from PDAC president Scott Jobin-Bevans. Photo by Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada

PDAC honours 2011 award winners

The 2011 PDAC awards gala was held during the organization’s annual convention, on the evening of March 7 at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York hotel. The winners were selected by the PDAC’s board of directors, based on recommendations from the…


De Beers' Victor open-pit diamond mine in the James Bay Lowlands, 90 km west of the coastal community of Attawapiskat in northern Ontario. Photo by De Beers

De Beers smiles as diamond prices rebound

While a certain amount of global uncertainty remains, 2010 saw a strong recovery in diamond prices driven by exceptional demand in China and India, coupled by a better than expected retail performance in the U.S. during the Christmas season.


A drill rig at Northern Dynasty Minerals and Anglo American's Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in Alaska. Photo by Northern Dynasty Minerals

Pebble PEA makes a big splash (March 07, 2011)

February was a busy month for Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-T, NAK-X) and Anglo American (AAL-L) at their gigantic Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in southwest Alaska, said by many to be one of the largest undeveloped copper-gold…


Chile a copper cornucopia

Chile is already the world’s largest producer of copper and home to around a third of global reserves of the red metal. That has led some to suggest that the country’s exploration potential may have peaked. But that’s not what the latest…


Drilling at the Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska. Credit: Northern Dynasty Minerals

Pebble PEA makes a big splash (February 28, 2011)

Vancouver – February was a busy month for Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-T, NAK-X) and Anglo American (AAL-L) at their gigantic Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in southwest Alaska, said by many to be one of the largest undeveloped…


The state of mining in South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa – The mood at the 2011 Mining Indaba conference in South Africa was markedly upbeat as the industry experiences booming growth, but the host nation was left wondering how it had missed out.




Vale wants copper

No longer satisfied with just being the world’s number one iron ore producer, Vale (VALE-N) is looking to incr…





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