PotashCorp’s Q1 misses the mark
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT-T, POT-N) reported lower first quarter profits on the back of reduced potash sales and production volumes, revising its 2012 earnings guidance.
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VMS Ventures looking to repeat Reed success
VANCOUVER — Manitoba’s Flin Flon greenstone belt has been yielding high-grade copper and zinc from its volcanogenic massive sulphide ore bodies for almost 85 years, but VMS Ventures (VMS-V) thinks there’s lots of…
Coeur d’Alene gets a handle on Kensington
Opening up a new mine is seldom an even process.
Rodren Drilling finds something to celebrate at Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg
VANCOUVER — Every so often a story comes along that draws everything into focus. In the mining industry the news of the day often involves high-grade drill results, production guidance estimates, or stock movement, but when Rodren…
Planetary Resources’ plan to mine asteroids
A start-up company with high-profile supporters has set out to boldly go where no miner has gone before — to extract the resource riches of outer space.
ESO Uranium digs into the Athabasca Basin
Ben Ainsworth joined the board of Hathor Exploration in 2005 and served as vice president exploration during the junior’s development of its high-grade Roughrider uranium deposit in northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin, about 25…
Potash remains a hot commodity on the Canadian prairies
VANCOUVER — With world populations marching ever upward, and an updated forecast from the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimating the largest U.S. corn crop in 75 years through 2012, it comes as no surprise that potash exploration…
Belo Sun Mining raises estimate on Volta
It’s been a busy few days for Belo Sun Mining (BSX-T). On Monday the Toronto-based junior adopted a shareholder rights plan, followed on Wednesday with an updated resource estimate for the two deposits in Brazil that make up its flagship…
La Ronge district regaining some of its old shine
VANCOUVER — In the 1980s Saskatchewan’s La Ronge gold belt was booming, with between 60 and 80 companies exploring on the ground and several hundred thousand ounces being pulled out of the ground. But a tough market and mixed…
Detour sees a straight path to production
Detour Gold (DGC-T) says it’s on track to start producing gold at the Detour Lake mine near Cochrane, Ont., early next year.
Seafield shores up Miraflores
With the release of its first preliminary economic assessment on its Miraflores project in Colombia, Seafield Resources (SFF-V) has given the market something to chew on.
Impact Silver reaps more high-grade
Second phase drilling at the Oscar project in Mexico has returned intercepts of 1,875 grams silver per tonne over 1 metre and 115 grams silver over 23.39 metres, Impact Silver (IPT-V) reports.