Redhawk ramps up Copper Creek resource
Vancouver – Redhawk Resources’ (RDK-V) drilling efforts in the Arizona sun are paid off with a 60% boost to the cop…
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Niblack defines resource at Alaskan VMS project (September 10, 2008)
Vancouver – With an exploration adit finally complete and underground drilling underway, Niblack Mining (NIB-V) rel…
Tower Hill falls on Livengood intercepts
Vancouver The Livengood property continues to return long, low grade intercepts for International Tower Hill Mine…
Romarco expands Haile resource to 1.5 million oz. gold
Romarco Minerals (R-V, RTRAF-O) has nearly doubled resources at the Haile gold mine in South Carolina, prompting th…
NovaGold sells Ambler; mulls future asset sales
Now that troubled NovaGold Resources (NG-T) has found a buyer for the last of its non-core assets, the company says…
Nevada-focused Victoria, Gateway, agree to merger
VANCOUVER — Victoria Gold (VIT-V, VITFF-O) will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Gateway Gold (GTQ-T, GWYGF-O) in a friendly merger that will produce a Nevada-focused explorer with one advanc…
Nichols Ranch study upbeat
A preliminary economic assessment for Uranerz Energy’s (URZ-T, URZ-X) Nichols Ranch uranium project in Wyoming’s Powder River basin suggests building an in-situ operation that could produce nearly 3.3…
Editorial: It’s closin’ time
Mine closings and layoffs. Yes, with metal prices pulling back sharply this past half year, we’ve finally reached that painful inflection point in the commodity cycle where mine suspensions and closin…
HudBay’s Balmat zinc operation goes bust
VANCOUVER–Less than two years after ramping the Balmat mine back up to full production, HudBay Minerals (HBM-T, HBMFF-O) is closing the New York state zinc mine and concentrator.
International Beryllium funds nuclear fuel research (August 29, 2008)
International Beryllium (IB-V) has agreed to fund a two-year, US$500,000 research project by Purdue University in W…
For Uranium One, the Honeymoon’s over (August 25, 2008)
VANCOUVER — Uranium One’s (UUU-T, SXRZF-O) decision to sell some of its earlier-stage uranium properties this spring has hit it with a US$105-million impairment charge in its second quarter for a US$…
Vedanta investing US$8.8B in base metal expansion
Having received the go-ahead from India’s Supreme Court, Vedanta Resources (VED-L), an India-focused resource giant, is proceeding with a bauxite project in Lanjigarh, in the state of Orissa. An alumi…