Playing interest rates with mining stocks
To state that interest rates drive financial markets is to state the obvious. But defining the relationship between rates and mining stocks is a more difficult matter.
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Back Forty gains grade but work still suspended
VANCOUVER — A new resource estimate for the Back Forty poly-metallic project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has boosted the deposit’s metal grades. But despite the improvement, no work is underway at the site because project…
Signs of life in the junior market
After surviving a moribund market, junior miners can look forward to a less stressful 2013, says John Gravelle, mining leader for the Americas at PwC.
Foran jumps into action in Saskatchewan
Foran Mining (FOM-V) is gaining steam at its flagship McIlvenna Bay volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project in Saskatchewan, west of Flin Flon, Man.
VMS Ventures looking to repeat Reed success
Manitoba’s Flin Flon greenstone belt has been yielding high-grade copper and zinc from its volcanogenic massive sulphide orebodies for almost 85 years, and VMS Ventures (VMS-V) thinks there’s a lot more mineralization to be found.
Candente Copper a likely takeover target?
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.
Panoro’s big dreams for Cotabambas
In the northern reaches of south-central Peru’s Andahuaylas-Yauri belt, 50 km southwest of Cusco, three drill rigs are turning at Panoro Minerals’ (PMI-V) Cotabambas copper-gold porphyry project, where the company hopes to delineate the belt’s…
HudBay Minerals releases Q3 results
A shortage of railcars to transport concentrate was largely to blame for lower third-quarter sales and earning…
Callinan to divide royalty and exploration operations
Vancouver – Eighty-three-year-old Callinan Mines (CAA-V) is splitting up its royalty and exploration holding i…
HudBay hikes resource at Back Forty in Michigan
HudBay Minerals (HBM-T) has boosted its resource estimate by more than 100% to about one million ounces of con…
New nickel zone sends Anfield higher (September 09, 2010)
Drill results from Anfield Nickel’s (ANF-V) Mayaniquel project in Guatemala indicate that the company could ha…
TSX Composite higher despite mixed data
TSX Composite Index rose 161 points to finish the Aug. 23-27 period at 11,879.72. The stronger period came des…