Volume 99 Number 15 May 27 - Jun 2, 2013

Mills spin at Fortuna Silver Mines' Caylloma silver-gold-zinc-lead mine in southern Peru. Source: Fortuna Silver

Drilling returns more silver and gold at Fortuna’s mines

VANCOUVER — Gold and silver prices struggled in April, which meant most precious metal producers saw their share prices slide. For Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI-T, FSM-N), however, a slumping share price belies strong financials and promising…





Athabasca Minerals' Kearl aggregate mine, 105 km northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Source: Athabasca Minerals

Athabasca finds aggregate demand remains strong

VANCOUVER — Despite recent uncertainty surrounding production in Canada’s oil sands — due to issues like volatile crude prices and ongoing pipeline debates — growth remains the word for supply-oriented companies in the…



Husky Energy's Sunrise oilsands project under construction in Alberta. The project is two-thirds away from completion, according to the company.

Husky ready to make the Sunrise

There are an estimated 170 billion barrels of oil in Alberta’s oilsands, but getting them all out is proving to be a costly venture. As with the metal mining industry, mining for oil has been subjected to steep cost inflation over the…


Logging core at Sunridge Gold's Asmara copper-zinc-gold project in Eritrea. Source: Sunridge Gold

Sunridge brightens Asmara’s economics

Sunridge Gold (SGC-V) has outlined stronger economics for its prized Asmara copper-zinc-gold project in Eritrea in a feasibility study that outshines last year’s prefeasibility study. 


Titanium digs for value in oil sands tailings

VANCOUVER — Titanium Corp. (TIC-V) sees an opportunity in the waste being created by the big bitumen business in northeastern Alberta. With backing from the federal and provincial governments, the Edmonton-based junior is aiming to…



Editorial: Clash of the Titans

Canadians trying to make sense of what’s going on in the upper echelons of the newly merged Glencore Xstrata are getting a feel of what it must have been like to be an ancient Greek peasant looking up at his distant panoply of…


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