Metals, mining and money markets
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Volume 99 Number 39 Nov 11 - 17, 2013
Dalradian seeks to optimize Curraghinalt
Metallurgical test work at the small but high-grade Curraghinalt gold deposit in Northern Ireland suggests that Dalradian Resources (TSX: DNA) can achieve higher recoveries using a sequential gravity flotation circuit rather than whole-ore…
Barrick shelves Pascua-Lama
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) has suspended construction at its controversial Pascua-Lama gold-silver project in Argentina and Chile, citing lower metal prices and regulatory and legal uncertainties.
The battle continues at Taseko’s New Prosperity
VANCOUVER — The permitting saga has lasted nearly four years for B.C.-based copper producer Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-MKT: TGB) and its New Prosperity copper-gold project, 125 km southwest of Williams Lake, but the proposed…
Editorial: Is Pretium petering out?
The Pretium saga brings to mind the old joke about the ever-optimistic geologist seeing that the glass is half full, while the mining engineer sees only that the glass should be reduced in size by 50%.
Suncor, Total and Teck green-light $14B Fort Hills oilsands megaproject
Suncor Energy (TSX: SU; NYSE: SU) and its partners Total E&P Canada Ltd. (a subsidiary of Paris-based Total (NYSE: TOT) and Teck Resources (TSX: TCK.B; NYSE: TCK) are proceeding with the Fort Hills oilsands mine project in Alberta’s…