VANCOUVER — Nunavut has been a tough place for gold companies of late, what with Newmont Mining (NMC-T, NEM-N) shelving its Hope Bay project and Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM-T, AEM-N) being forced to cut years off its Meadowbank mine in the…
VANCOUVER — It looks like Gold Standard Ventures (GV-V) has done it again. The company’s shares jumped 51% or 91¢ on April 26 following the release of new results from the North Bullion zone at its Railroad gold property…
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.
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…
Opening up a new mine is seldom an even process.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 Gold (DGC-T) says it’s on track to start producing gold at the Detour Lake mine near Cochrane, Ont., early next year.
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