Eldorado inks iron ore deal with BHP
VANCOUVER — Eldorado Gold (ELD-T, EGO-X) has signed an agreement to sell future iron ore production from its 75%-owned Vila Nova project, in northern Brazil’s Amapa state, to mining giant BHP Billito…
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Pencari quietly builds Madagascar holdings;Pencari quietly builds Madagascar holdings
About 15% of the land available for mining in Madagascar is unclaimed and it’s going fast, the country’s minister of energy and mines, Elyse Razaka, told The Northern Miner during an interview at the …
The uranium bottleneck
Be prepared for continued volatility in the uranium market this year, but don’t expect the crazy price jumps of 2007, warned Ux Consulting senior vice-president Eric Webb at the recent Prospectors and…
Minco Gold releases resource for Changkeng
Drive for half an hour southwest of Guangzhou — China’s fourth-largest city of 13 million people, across the border from Hong Kong — and you’ll come across the Changkeng gold project, where Minco Go…
TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE (March 24, 2008)
U. S. credit market woes trumped gold’s recent surge through the US$1,000-per-oz. threshold, prompting a 99.44-point slide in the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index, which closed the March 11-17 trad…
Thompson Creek reports solid 2007;Thompson Creek
Th o m p s o n Creek Metals’ (TCM-T, TC-N) year-end financials show the company is on solid ground a year and a half after completing a US$575 -m i l – lion acquisition that gave it producing molybden…
Credit Suisse ups thermal coal price forecasts — again
Credit Suisse has revised its thermal coal price forecast for the fifth time since 2006.
NovaGold lines up US$95 million to recharge treasury
Vancouver – After recently pulling the plug on a planned $130-million private placement due to “pricing conditions”…
Tahera for sale
Tahera Diamond (TAH-T), which has been under creditor protection since January, has hired financial advisory firm F…
Belvedere moves underground in Finland
Belvedere Resources (BEL-V) is launching underground mining operations ahead of schedule at its Sarkiniemi West n…
Starfield Resources likes Ferguson Lake economics
The Ferguson Lake base metals project in Canada’s Nunavut region will likely post a pre-tax internal rate of return…
Redhawk finds deep breccia at Copper Creek (March 20, 2008)
Vancouver – Exploration drilling is returning long, strong intercepts for Redhawk Resources (RDK-V) as the company …