China demand boosts aluminium prices
Growing optimism about China’s demand for cars, property and power grid construction coupled with a weaker US …
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Apollo’s Giant Leap To Production
SITE VISIT TIMMINS, ONT. — Long pincers clasp and pull a heavy rectangular object out of a shallow pool of water. It is carried over to a large table where…
Toronto Stock Exchange – July 14-20
The S&P/TSX composite index surged 6.6% over the July 14-20 trading period, rising 649 points to close at 10,540, thanks to better than expected earnings from the materials, energy and financials …
TSX Venture Exchange – July 14-20
The S&P-TSX Venture composite index managed to gain every day but one during the week of July 14-20, leaving the board up 70.46 points at 1,118.09 by the end of the week. And daily trading volumes…
U.S. Markets – July 14-20
As results of the second-quarter earnings season rolled in, and with the news so far at least not terrible, especially in the case of big miners, investors reacted positively to help buoy markets over…
New GM Shuns Stillwater Palladium
Montana-based Stillwater Mining (SWC-N), the only palladium producer in the United States, is objecting to post-bankruptcy General Motors’ decision to terminate its palladium and rhodium supply contra…
Randgold Outbids Red Back For Moto Goldmines
Randgold Resources (GOLD-Q , RRS-L) has caused some commotion by topping Red Back Mining’s (RBI-T, RBIFF-O) June 1st bid for Moto Goldmines (MGL-T, MTOGF-O), kicking off a potential bidding war.
Tirex Adds Promise At Mirdita
VANCOUVER — Tirex Resources (TXX-V, TIRXF-O) is slowly proving the precious and base metal potential of its Mirdita project in central Albania. Lately, the proof has come from the Letitna zone, where…
Euromax Receives US$13.5M Payment For Bulagou
VANCOUVER — With US$13.5 million now in the bank from the sale of a gold property in China, Euromax Resources (EOX-V, EOXFF-O) is ready to step up exploration efforts on its projects in Macedonia and…
Record Production For Uranium One In Kazakhstan
VANCOUVER — Uranium One (UUU-T, SXRZF-O) has announced record production results from its Kazakhstan mines and an increase in resources at one of those mines as the company’s share price labours to r…
Juniors Buddy Up
The summertime flurry of merger and acquisition proposals in the junior mining sector grew to a squall during the 28th trading week of the year.
Uranium Symposium Covers State Of The Art
The U2009 uranium symposium held in Keystone, Colo., in May, covered progress on a number of fronts in uranium mining technology, including uranium extraction, exploration and in-situ production.