Volume 98 Number 42 Dec 3 - 9, 2012

Banks Island moves Yellow Giant towards production

It has been a quick ride for B.C.-focused explorer Banks Island Gold (BOZ-V). Just 18 months since Banks Island signed an earn-in agreement on its Yellow Giant gold-silver property, 110 km south of Prince Rupert, the company has released a…


Auriga’s new vision for Puffy Lake

Auriga Gold (AIA-V) wants to bring the Puffy gold mine in northwestern Manitoba back to life — only this time, as a more modest and efficient operation.



Equipment at Black Iron's Shymanivske iron ore project in the Ukraine, 330 km southeast of Kiev. Credit: Black Iron.

Black Iron takes on Ukrainian iron ore

Low operating costs and proximity to steel mills in Europe and the Middle East make Black Iron’s (BKI-T) Shymanivske iron ore project in the Ukraine a compelling proposition, despite fluctuations in the iron ore price, the Toronto-based…



A trench at the Atygai prospect on Slater Mining's West Khazret gold project in Kazakhstan. Source: Slater Mining

Slater’s patience rewarded in Kazakhstan’s goldfields

Business partners Ian Slater and Robert Bell first set their sights on Kazakhstan mineral potential not long after the country declared independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Two decades later, their vision of developing a…


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