Taseko to add capacity at Gibraltar mine
Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) wants to take advantage of robust copper prices and expand capacity at its 75%-owned Gibraltar mine in the Cariboo region of British Columbia and Williams Lake.
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Astur releases Salave PEA
Vancouver – Astur Gold (AST-V) has released a preliminary economic assessment on its Salave gold project in Spain that shows the potential for an open pit, underground or a combined operation.
Vanadium: metal of future and present.
Lithium has grabbed much of the headlines over the last few years when the subject of key metals of the future comes up. But more and more investors are paying attention to vanadium for the metals unique attribute of fitting in with two future…
Promising results at Fayolle for Typhoon Exploration
A ten-metre intercept averaged 7.14 grams gold per tonne at Typhoon Exploration’s (TYP-V) 100%-owned Fayolle project in Quebec’s Abitibi region.
Northgate Minerals updates resource at Kemess
Northgate Minerals (NGX-T, NXG-N) has boosted its indicated resource tonnes by 18% and its contained gold and copper by 10% and 9% respectively at its Kemess underground project in north-central British Columbia.
Editorial: US budget folly to extend commodities boom
U.S. politics veered into the surreal this week, as U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a deficit-laden, US$3.73-trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2012 that completely ducks the critical issue of unsustainable spending by the U.S. government…
EMED revives Rio Tinto mine in Spain
In six years, Cyprus-based EMED Mining (EMD-T, EMED-L) has grown from being little more than a concept to a company with very real plans to restart copper production this year from the historic Rio Tinto open-pit copper mine in southwestern…
Entree Gold is “sitting pretty”
Entrée Gold (ETG-T, EGI-X) is “strongly undervalued” given the potential for it to sell its Mongolian assets to Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) or Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L), Christopher Ecclestone of Hallgarten & Co. argues in a…
More gold in new and old places for Klondex
Klondex Mines (KDX-T) continues to find new mineralized zones at its Fire Creek property in North Central Nevada The company says it has found a new high-grade vein 150 metres south of the southern end of the Far North resource as an RC drill…
Majestic Gold releases preliminary assessment of Songjiagou project
Majestic Gold’s (MJS-V) Songjiagou gold project in China’s Shandong province would have a net present value of US$525 million at a 10% discount rate and an internal rate of return of 78.6%, according to a preliminary assessment.
Ventana Gold likes AUX’s new offer price
A hostile takeover bid turned friendlier on Sunday when Ventana Gold Corp. (VEN-T) verbally agreed to a new takeover price of $13.06 per share from AUX Canada Acquisition, up 43¢ from the latter’s initial offer of $12.63 per share in…
TSX down for Feb.7-14 period
The TSX Composite Index endured a tough period as the Index fell roughly 88 points to 13,766.76 for the Feb. 7-11 period. The fall came as experts predicted a slump in housing starts and housing prices in Canada due to a divergence in wages and…