K+S to make history with Legacy potash
K+S plans to go ahead with building its Legacy potash project in Saskatchewan’s highly prospective potash basin, with initial production expected in 2015.
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Molycorp delivers on magnet-making deal
In August Molycorp’s (MCP-N) proposed partnership with Hitachi Metals to create a joint venture that would manufacture neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) alloy and permanent rare earth magnets fell through when the two companies failed to reach an…
Canaccord: Keegan shares oversold
Keegan Resources (KGN-T, KGN-X) shares are undervalued, even considering the new tax changes proposed in Ghana, Canaccord Genuity mining analyst Nicholas Campbell argues in a research note, adding that the gold junior could be targeted by an…
Editorial: Quebec’s growing mining ambivalence
If you’re wondering how the Quebec mining industry’s lobbying efforts are coming along to amend the provincial government’s mining-restrictive Bill 14, tabled in May to update the Mining Act, look no further than the increasingly frustrated and…
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Positive results for Probe Mines
Results of an initial scoping study on metallurgy at the Borden Lake gold project near Chapleau, Ont., are encouraging for Probe Mines (PRB-V).
Ross Beaty’s take on future metal demand
Over the last 25 years, Vancouver-based mining entrepreneur Ross Beaty has started 12 public companies and sold eight of them, converting about $1 billion of investment capital into shareholder wealth that exceeds $5 billion. Mr. Beaty…
Goldman Sachs: Commodity prices up 15% next year
Analysts from Goldman Sachs (GS-N) have forecast that commodity prices will increase by 15% in 2012, with the influential investment bank maintaining an “overweight” recommendation on commodities for the coming 12 months.
Deloitte tracks the trends for 2012
After recent trips to China and India, Glenn Ives, the Toronto-based chairman of Deloitte, is more convinced than ever that the urbanization and modernization taking place in Asia will continue to drive demand for metals, while dwindling…
Scotiabank’s Mohr likes copper in 2012
Despite analysts facing some of the most difficult markets in years, Patricia Mohr, economics and commodity market specialist with the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS-T, BNS-N), agreed to delve into the difficult job of predicting where metal…
Mudslide helps Colombian Mines
A mudslide proved a blessing for Colombian Mines (CMJ-V) at its El Dovio polymetallic project in Colombia.