Study shows Lac Guret could be low-cost mine for Mason Graphite
Production at Mason Graphite’s (TSXV: LLG; US-OTC: MGPHF) potentially high-margin Lac Guéret graphite project in northeastern Quebec could start as early as 2017.
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Oceanic’s creative Sinohydro deal keeps Ungava project alive
Sinohydro, one of China’s oldest state-owned enterprises set up shortly after chairman Mao Zedong’s Communist party swept to power in 1949, says it is “willing and ready” to become an equity shareholder in Oceanic Iron…
Goldcorp’s Chuck Jeannes ‘not worried about lonore’
Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) is highlighting the potential at Éléonore in northern Quebec, despite recently lowering the gold mine’s 2015 production forecast, partly due to higher-than-expected mining dilution.
Toronto stocks end mixed, Sept. 28-Oct. 2
The S&P/TSX Composite Index had a turbulent week, falling 0.3% to 13,339.74, despite cutting some of its earlier losses, after positive Canadian data. The country’s gross domestic product number for July came in at 0.3%, after two…
Bullion bulls invest in Kaminak Gold
A pooled investment fund associated with billionaire mining magnate Thomas Kaplan — an Oxford-educated historian, who spends much of his spare time trying to save the world’s big cats from extinction — has become the latest…
US equities pick up steam, Sept. 28-Oct. 2
Employment data from the U.S. Labor Department showing that 142,000 new non-farm jobs were created in September — far less than the 203,000 forecast — furthered expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve would delay raising interest…
Morocco’s OCP aims to dominate phosphate industry
MARRAKESH, MOROCCO — It’s hard not to be struck by the juxtaposition of tradition and progress when sitting in the back of a worn taxi cab winding its way through the maze-like confines of the medina quarter in the high-profile…
Election 2015: Liberals, Greens and NDP Q&A on mining in Canada
With Canadians looking ahead to a federal election on Oct. 19, The Northern Miner submitted mining-related questions to the leaders of the four major political parties running across Canada. The following are the answers from the Liberal Party…
TSX falls, Sept. 21-25
Anxiety about global growth soured investor appetite for risk, with data showing Chinese factory activity shrank to a six-and-a-half-year low in September, while U.S. manufacturing growth in the same month stayed at a two-year low.
Stornoway’s resource rises at Renard
Stornoway Diamond (TSX: SWY; US-OTC: SWYDF) is halfway through building its Renard diamond mine in Quebec — the first diamond mine in the province, and one of only two currently being built in Canada — but already the project is…
TSX Venture drops, Sept. 21-25
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index dropped 1.5%, or 8.41 points, before closing at 541.50 points. The Canadian dollar hit an 11-year low during the trading period at US$74.76, while oil and base metal futures also finished in the red….
Mining sector forced to innovate
The mining sector is facing a Darwinian moment, delegates at the first annual Technology and Innovation in Mining conference in Toronto heard in September.