Barrick’s profits up
Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) reported substantially higher third quarter profits of US$405 million (US$0.46 per shar…
Canada
Cumberland lines up $86.9-million financing
Vancouver – Cumberland Resources (CLG-T, CLG-X) has arranged an $86.9-million bought-deal financing earmarked for d…
Taseko tables bid for bcMetals
Vancouver – Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) has waded into the foray to acquire bcMetals (C-V, BMTLF-O), intending a $1…
Alexco’s silver intersects in the Yukon
Assay results from Alexco Resource’s (AXR-T) Keno Hill project in the Yukon sent the Vancouver-based company’s shar…
San Gold drifts into high-grade vein
Vancouver – Upstart miner San Gold (SGR-V, SGRCF-O) was dealt a pleasant surprise after tying into a high-grade sec…
Update: NovaGold urges rejection of Barrick’s sweetened offer
Vancouver After reviewing Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) revised US$16.00 per share bid, NovaGold Resources (NG-T,…
Teck Cominco posts $504-million profit in Q3
Vancouver – Robust commodity prices continued to fuel Teck Cominco’s (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) revenue engine, delivering st…
Editorial: We’ll think no more of Inco…
October marked the beginning of a new era for Canadian mining, with the absorption of the iconic Canadian nickel mi…
Crew buys Nugget Pond for Nalunaq ore (October 30, 2006)
Crew Gold (CRU-T, CRUGF-O) has struck a deal to buy the dormant Nugget Pond gold mill in Newfoundland from New Isla…
Blue Note dusts off Caribou
Bathurst, N.B. — The dormant Caribou and Restigouche zinc-lead mines in northern New Brunswick are once again getting a new lease on life, thanks to robust metal prices and strong investor confidence…
More reward than risk at Kutcho Creek
Dease Lake, B.C. — The Kutcho Creek volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project located 100 km east of this Northern community made it to prefeasibility in the mid-1980s, only to be put on the back b…
Gahcho Ku on path to production in 2012
With the Snap Lake underground mine in the Northwest Territories and the Victor open-pit operation in northern Ontario already under construction, De Beers, the world’s leading diamond player, is look…