CanTung mine to be put on care and maintenance
Declining tungsten prices and rising inventory are forcing North American Tungsten (NTC-V) to put its 100%-owned Ca…
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Teck Sells 33% Of Waneta Dam For $825M
VANCOUVER — In its latest debt-reduction move, Teck (TCK. B-T, TCK-N) is selling a 33% stake in its Waneta hydroelectric dam in southeastern British Columbia to BC Hydro for $825 million.
Iamgold To Expand Niobec
Iamgold’s (IMG-T, IAG-N) board has given the green light to a major expansion of the company’s wholly owned Niobec underground niobium mine, situated just north of Chicoutimi in Quebec’s Lac St. Jean …
More High Grade For San Gold Near Rice Lake
VANCOUVER — Drills keep hitting high-grade gold in new zones near San Gold’s (SGR-V, SGRCF-O) producing Rice Lake mine in Manitoba — and the company’s share price keeps climbing in response.
Sabina eyes higher grades at Hackett
Vancouver – Looking to increase resources at its Hackett River project near Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Sabina Silver …
New base metals index on the TSX
Base metals investors now have a new index to follow through the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index, launched today…
Starfield acquires Nevoro
Starfield Resources (SRU-T), an explorer which is advancing the Ferguson Lake base metal and PGM (platinum group me…
Lake Shore Gold reports record intercept at Thunder Creek
Shares of Lake Shore Gold (LSG-T) surged 50¢ or 20.49% to $2.94 per share and those of its joint-venture partn…
Abacus proves potential in old Ajax with positive PEA
Vancouver – Abacus Mining and Exploration’s (AME-V) president has long believed his Ajax project, a brownfields p…
Western Potash On The Upswing
Analysts at Wellington West Capital Markets believe investors in junior explorer Western Potash Corp. (WPX-V) will do well over the next 12 months.
Harry Winston Reports Q1 Loss Of US$45M
Harry Winston Diamond (HW-T, HWD-N) CEO Bob Gannicott had the synonyms for “bad” out in full force at the company’s annual general meeting in Toronto on June 4.
M&A, Financings Power Junior Sector
The year’s 23rd trading week was highlighted by lots of small but significant events, as the North American mining sector continued to gain strength after a long hard winter of hunkering down.