Before he stepped down a year ago as president and chief executive of Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-N), Joseph Conway successfully transformed the company from a $50-million joint-venture player to a $6-billion leading intermediate gold producer. Now the…
The proposed merger of Alpha Natural Resources (ANR-N) and Massey Energy (MEE-N) announced Jan. 29 will create a top-three global metallurgical coal producer in a transaction that will be cash flow accretive in the first full year of operation…
The final technical session at the Mineral Exploration Roundup hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) looked at the potential of thermal coal, uranium, vanadium, molybdenum, copper and, of course, gold.
Assays for the final five holes from Commerce Resources’ (cce-v, cmrzf-o) 2010 drill program at its Ashram rare-earth zone on its Eldor project in northern Quebec bring the junior one step closer to completing a National Instrument 43-101…
As if anyone needed more confirmation that coal has come back in a big way, the fourth week of January served up the biggest merger in U.S. coal mining history.
Sudbury supports new office at CEMI
With two diamond projects in the pipeline, Lucara Diamond (LUC-V) has announced a $60-million private placement to help move them forward.
Already one of the largest copper-producing companies, First Quantum Minerals’ (FM-T, FQM-L) plan to expand production capacity in Zambia at its Kansanshi copper-gold mine by 60% to about 400,000 tonnes of copper per year by 2015 and advance…
Rockgate Capital (RGT-T) has significantly increased the size and grade of the uranium and silver resource in its Falea project in southwest Mali with a resource update.
When Aldridge Minerals (AGM-V) acquired a 450-sq.-km licence in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in February 2009, it fielded three requests from majors to joint-venture the property even before any samples were taken.
Vancouver – The first set of drill results from Newstrike Capital’s (NES-V) exploration and twinning program on its Ana Paula gold project in southern Mexico returned several significant gold intercepts including a long stand-out.
Eureka, Nevada – 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. He is confident that this year’s…
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