In late January Kilo Goldmines (KGL-V) announced that its iron ore joint-venture project with Rio Tinto (RIO-N) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the potential to host direct shipping ore. In the same announcement the junior…
Talon Metals (TLO-T) has released a slew of drill results from its extensive 2011 exploration program, showing iron content in weathered and fresh rock at its Trairao project in Brazil.
To survive half a century as an independent firm, Watts, Griffis and McOuat (WGM) has had to be the James Bond of the consulting world, willing to embrace extremes and extricate itself from some dicey situations: bush planes sinking under the…
Coro Mining (COP-T) has signed an option agreement with a local Chilean company to acquire El Desesperado — a 7-sq.-km property hosting porphyry copper-style mineralization 16 km southwest of Codelco’s Chuquicamata copper mine in…
There’s no doubt that new technologies have made the discovery and development of mineral deposits a rewarding but more complex business.
First Uranium (FIU-T) said it would be selling its chief assets – the Mine Waste Solutions tailings recovery project and the Ezulwini gold-uranium mine, both in South Africa – for US$405 million as the underperforming junior…
While tungsten promoters may want to spin an investment in a tungsten mine that connects back to Warren Buffet as a rousing endorsement for the metal, the main factor in the move is far more pragmatic.
After being trumped last year in a bidding war with Rio Tinto (RIO-N, RIO-L) for Hathor Exploration and its juicy Roughrider deposit, Cameco Corp. (CCO-T, CCJ-N) is back on the acquisition trail, announcing before markets opened on…
Vancouver — Nevada has long excited explorers with its gold potential, but Nevada Copper (NCU-T) continues to prove the state’s potential for the red metal too.
Vancouver — British Columbia has another member of the billion lb. copper club following an initial resource estimate on Gold Fields’ (GFI-N) and Consolidated Woodjam Copper’s (WCC-V) joint venture property.
Auriga Gold (AIA-V) gave delivered some eye-popping grades to the market from its on Maverick gold project in Manitoba, and the market responded accordingly.
Three years ago when Pierre Monet went out on the road to talk to the investment community about tungsten, he would spend about 60% of his time explaining what the metal was all about. Today the president and chief executive of tungsten…
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