BHP Billiton (BHP-N) and Rio Tinto (RIO-N) are feeling optimistic about copper. Six weeks into the first quarter of 2012, the two mining giants have unveiled plans to commit over US$4 billion to expand copper production at operations in Chile…
All it took was a bigger dividend and a bit of explaining for Kinross Gold (K-T, KGC-N) to gather some wind behind its back again.
The Canadian government’s decision to spend up to $55 million building a deep-water, multi-user dock at the Port of Sept-Îles on Quebec’s North Shore that complies with the iron ore industry’s new loading…
Corvus Gold (KOR-T) has started the year with a bang. Positive assay results from its North Bullfrog gold-silver project outside of Beatty, Nev., combined with a sunny outlook for gold juniors, helped push the company’s share up 50% since…
NovaDx Ventures (NDX-V), once a pharmaceutical shell turned merchant bank, has found itself on more solid footing as a specialty coal company.
Vancouver — The Carlin Trend in northeast Nevada is known as elephant country thanks to seven major gold deposits, each exceeding 20 million tonnes. Gold Standard Ventures (GV-V) may have found its elephant.
Vancouver — Mainland Southeast Asia may not hold much buzz for Canadian explorers, with island nations in the region getting far more attention, but there are several companies finding success in this generally overlooked part of the…
Sometimes a little change can do a company a lot of good. In the case of Seafield Resources (SFF-V), change has come in the form of a new management team and the good it hopes to do is revive investor interest in what was briefly one of the…
Yamana Gold (YRI-T, AUY-N) reported a US$89.5-million profit for the fourth quarter of 2011, a 28% decrease from the same period a year ago, thanks to a one-time US$81-million impairment loss on investments.
An updated resource estimate based on 394 new core holes or 170,000 metres of drilling last year—bringing the total to 1,279 drill holes or 578,261 metres—has boosted in-pit and underground resources for Rainy River Resources…
Vancouver — Twin tragedies have bookended four months of turbulence and change at Anooraq Resources (ARQ-V) and Anglo American (AAL-L) subsidiary Amplat’s Bokoni platinum mine in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.
Golden Predator’s (GPD-T) deep portfolio of projects in the Yukon is looking a little more robust after its latest drill results.
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