First Point, Cliffs rev up Decar nickel-iron project in BC
For a base metals junior, First Point Minerals (FPX-V) looks to have it all.
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Central Iron Ore seeks more gold in Western Australia
Central Iron Ore’s (CIO-V) primary focus may be the magnetite and direct shipping ore it believes exists on its 652 sq. km of tenements in the Yilgarn iron ore province of Western Australia, but the junior is also busy exploring for gold and…
Northgate’s Australian mines lag
Analysts remain mixed over AuRico Gold’s (AUQ-N) $1.46-billion, all-share takeover bid for gold miner Northgate Minerals (NGX-T, NXG-X), with some believing the 60% price AuRico agreed to pay is too rich for Northgate and its prized…
Business is a fun game to play for Bruce Walter
Roots in The Salvation Army run four generations deep for mining entrepreneur and dealmaker Bruce Walter, the chairman of Toronto-based WW Mines.
Nunavut gold find pleases Prosperity investors
Prosperity Goldfields (PPG-V) has drilled 158 metres of 1.7 grams gold per tonne at its main Kiyuk gold project in southern Nunavut, including a higher-grade section of 31 metres grading 4.9 grams gold. The results are from the company’s…
Lawrence Roulston’s top stock picks
“There is a huge amount of uncertainty in the financial markets right now,” Lawrence Roulston, a geologist and editor of the newsletter Resource Opportunities, told an audience at a mid-September Cambridge House conference in Toronto. “There is…
Rumours about Oyu Tolgoi rattle Ivanhoe
Dale Choi, an analyst at Frontier Securities in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is recommending to clients that they buy long-term call options on Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) due to the “panic” surrounding rumours of possible revisions to the Oyu…
Maya Gold & Silver turns to Morocco’s silver and gold riches
Maya Gold & Silver (MYA-V) has its eyes on another past-producing precious-metal mine in Morocco – this time, the Zgounder silver mine in central Morocco’s Anti-Atlas mountains.
Editorial: Expect more M&A in gold
In a presentation at this year’s Denver Gold Forum, Minefinders president and CEO Mark Bailey summed up the spirit of this year’s event – a place where the lobbying and meetings continue non-stop over three days from 7 a.m. over a continental…
Commentary: Resource development and Indigenous peoples: Finding the path to co-operation
The following is the edited text of a speech given by the Assembly of First Nations’ National Chief Shawn Atleo in early September, at a joint luncheon in Toronto between the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Indigenous Bar Association. For…
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