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Energizer Resources' senior VP of operations Craig Scherba walks on a giant graphite ridge on the Seta graphite zone at the Green Giant vanadium-graphite project in Madagascar. Photo by Energizer Resources

Graphite: Hot commodity or hyped commodity?

Lithium and rare earth metals became the “it” commodities in the mining industry over the last few years, and now there is a growing consensus among industry watchers that graphite is set to take the stage in their wake.  


Drilling at Midas Gold's Golden Meadows gold project in Idaho. Photo by Midas Gold

‘Rediscoveries’ among featured projects at Roundup 2012

Modern technologies combined with robust metal prices helped generate many of the domestic and international exploration successes featured at Mineral Exploration Roundup hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME…


Drillers probe Kilo Goldmines' Adumbi gold deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Orientale Province. Photo by Kilo Goldmines

Kilo juggles projects in the DRC, Afghanistan

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…



An aerial view of Barrick Gold's Lumwana copper mine in Zambia, acquired during the Equinox Minerals takeover. Photo by Barrick Gold

Lumwana’s margins below Barrick’s expectations

Half a year in, Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) newly purchased Lumwana copper mine in Zambia has done little to rebut the critics who denounced Barrick’s contentious and expensive move into copper through its June 2011 takeover of…


Drillers at La Mancha Resources' Hassai project in Northern Sudan. Photo by La Mancha Resources

Doubled Hassai resource creates buzz for La Mancha

Exposed sulphide mineralization appears at the bottom of 12 out of 16 oxide pits that make up La Mancha Resources’ (LMA-T) Hassai gold-copper mining complex in the remote desert of northern Sudan. And a new resource estimate based on…


Diamond drill rigs set up at Frontier Rare Earths' Zandkopsdrift rare earth element project in South Africa. Photo by Frontier Rare Earths

Frontier eyes 2015 start-up at Zandkopsdrift REE project

A preliminary economic study (PEA) on Frontier Rare Earths’ (FRO-T) Zandkopsdrift rare earth element deposit in South Africa predicts that it could be a high-margin specialty minerals producer, churning out 20,000 tonnes of separated rare…




First Uranium to sell South African assets

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…



Winds of change blowing for Anooraq and Amplat at Bokoni

Vancouver — Twin tragedies have bookended four months of turbulence and change at Anooraq Resources (ARQ-V) and Anglo American (AAL-L) subsidiary Amplat’s Bokoni platinum mine in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.


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