Western Uranium’s keys to success at Sunday complex
In some circles, George Glasier — founder of Energy Fuels (TSX: EFR; NYSE-MKT: UUUU) and more recently, Western Uranium (US-OTC: WSTRF) — is thought of as an industry rock star….
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Greenstone buys majority of Coro Mining’s latest financing
A private equity firm specializing in the mining and metals sector run by former executives of Xstrata and J.P. Morgan has bought most of the shares that Chile-focused Coro Mining…
Brixton Metals acquires third past producer near Cobalt
Since Brixton Metals (TSXV: BBB) started looking a year ago at the historic silver-cobalt camp near the northern Ontario town of Cobalt, the junior has picked up three past-producing underground…
Rob McEwen’s predictions for 2017
Rob McEwen, chairman and chief owner of McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX), looks back on the year that was, and ahead to what 2017 may hold in store for…
Letter to the editor: Discovering mineralization vs a deposit at Schaft Creek
In response to the Dunns’ letter on Schaft Creek, it is unfortunate that the Dunns apparently have not had the opportunity to read the 32-page chapter on Schaft Creek in…
Junior miners need to address credibility gap, panel hears
The past four years have been bleak for junior miners, but the downtrend is finally coming to an end, says Continental Gold (TSX: CNL) CEO Ari Sussman. “We’re definitely at…
Goldcorp, Integra team up on innovation contest
Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) and Integra Gold (TSXV: ICG; US-OTC: ICGQF) are launching a contest to find the next disruptive and exponential technologies that have the potential to revolutionize…
Letter to the editor: Nick Bird discovered Schaft Creek in BC
We are writing in reference to the Odds ‘n’ Sods article “Doda, Dink and Zoran” by Dr. Harold Linder (T.N.M., Dec. 3-11/16). The author’s biography at the end states, “Dr….
Site visit: IG Copper, Freeport probe Russia’s Far East
KHABAROVSK, FAR EAST RUSSIA — IG Copper (IGC), a privately held U.S. company, is making headway at its 51% held Malmyzh copper-gold porphyry project in Far East Russia, near the…
Palmer’s Probe Metals consolidates ground
A recent flurry of deals has almost doubled Probe Metals’ (TSXV: PRB) land position at its Val-d’Or East project in Quebec, and the latest set of assay results suggest why….
CPM’s Jeffrey Christian shares precious metal forecasts
Jeffrey Christian is the managing partner of CPM Group, a commodities research and management, consulting and financial advisory firm in New York. He founded the company in 1986, spinning off…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: Doda, Dink and Zoran
My first winter in the bush, after graduating from MIT in June 1958 with a degree in geology and geophysics, began on Dec. 5, 1958. I flew from Toronto to…