After a brief stop around midnight to refuel in Panama, Ross Beaty pulls out a sleeping bag from his carry-on and spreads it in the aisle of the luxurious Gulfstream III jet he has chartered to fly a group of mining analysts to Lumina Copper’s…
Two recent news items have underscored the divergent futures of the Northwest Territories (NWT) and Canada’s other two territories. On one side, BHP Billiton (BHP-N) announced possibly selling its Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories…
After a brief stop around midnight to refuel in Panama, Ross Beaty pulls out a sleeping bag from his carry-on and spreads it in the aisle of the luxurious Gulfstream III jet he has chartered to fly a group of mining analysts to Lumina Copper’s…
BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-L, BHP-A) is considering leaving the diamonds business, because it may no longer fit its modus operandi of owning only “large, long-life, upstream and expandable assets.”
Western Potash (WPX-T) has put a spotlight on its Milestone potash project in Saskatchewan with a positive prefeasibility study (PFS) estimating annual production at 2.8 million tonnes for at least 40 years. This has some analysts speculating…
The year 2010 would have been tough for Peregrine Diamonds (PGD-T) to top, even in the best of markets. The company made 34 new kimberlite discoveries at its 49%-owned Chidliak…
The story of EKATI Diamond Mine began in 1981, when geologist Charles Fipke found diamond indicator minerals near Blackwater Lake on the east side of the Mackenzie River in the…
On Nov. 6, 1991, the latest edition of The Northern Miner was on its way to bed when our fax machine spit out one page of seemingly unremarkable news: an…
Western Potash (WPX-T) has put a spotlight on its Milestone potash project in Saskatchewan with a positive prefeasibility study (PFS) estimating annual production at 2.8 million tonnes for at least 40 years. This has some analysts speculating…
Candente Copper’s (DNT-T) sizeable Canariaco Norte copper-gold deposit in northern Peru has been receiving a lot of buzz lately, with a few analysts tipping the project as a likely takeover target.
Shares of Bellhaven Copper & Gold (BHV-V) jumped 14¢, or 28%, on Sept. 13 to close at 64¢ on 1.2 million shares traded after the company released a maiden resource estimate for its La Mina gold-copper-porphyry project in central…
Junior Goldgroup Mining (GGA-T) believes it can produce much more gold within three years through organic growth by combining its Mexican assets, and Canaccord Genuity mining analyst Nicholas Campbell thinks that goalis on the mark.
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