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Richmont posts resource for Wasamac property

Since joining the ranks of gold producers in 1991, Richmont Mines (RIC-T, RIC-X) has produced more than 1.2 million ounces of gold from its operations in Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland and by the middle of this year expects to add production…


The state of mining in South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa – The mood at the 2011 Mining Indaba conference in South Africa was markedly upbeat as the industry experiences booming growth, but the host nation was left wondering how it had missed out.


Drill rigs at Midway Gold's Pan gold project in White Pine Cty., in east-central Nevada. Photo by Midway Gold

Midway positions Pan for production

Using the Pan gold project in Nevada as a springboard, Midway Gold’s (MDW-V, MDW-X) president and chief operating officer Kenneth Brunk is intent on transforming the company into a producer. 





Sampling on the skarn deposit at Dynacor Gold Mines' Tumipampa gold-copper property in southern Peru. Photo by Dynacor Gold Mines

Optimism gathers around Dynacor in Peru

Dynacor Gold Mines (DNG-T) has been steadily adding to its market cap over the last few months and word that the drills have started turning at a key exploration project in Peru furthered its advance. 


Auryx moves forward

There was plenty of news coming from Auryx Gold’s (AYX-T, AYX-N) Otjikoto gold project in Namibia but none of it was able to reverse what has been a steady decline in market cap over the past three months. 


The village of San Antonio de Quicha Chico near Stonegate Agricom's Mantaro phosphate deposit, 250 km east of Lima, Peru. Photo by Stonegate Agricom

A closer look at phosphate and Stonegate Agricom

Rising food prices have turned the conversation in many mining circles to increases in potash demand. Potash juniors have benefited as a result, and have ranked as some of the best performers on the TSX Venture Exchange over the last month.


Positive economics for Romarco’s Haile

Just three years after acquiring the Haile deposit in South Carolina, Romarco Minerals (R-T) has completed a positive feasibility study that demonstrates the project would have one of the lowest operating costs and highest grades of any…


Cliffs Natural Resources' Black Thor chromite project near McFauld's Lake in northern Ontario. Photo by Cliffs Natural Resources

Cliffs says Ontario’s electricity prices are too high

Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N) is warning that high electricity rates in Ontario are forcing it to widen its search for a location to build a proposed ferrochrome production facility that will use a closed electric arc furnace to treat ore…


US budget folly

U.S. politics veered into the surreal in mid-February, 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….


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