In a keynote address at Byron Capital Markets’ third annual conference on electric metals in Toronto last week, Jack Lifton warned that the prospect of copper shortages should be of far greater concern than of electric metals such as rare…
VANCOUVER — When it comes to the mining industry’s grand stage, companies are often required to play a number of different roles. The tale is much the same for Hunter Dickinson-backed Curis Resources (CUV-T) in its gambit to develop…
VANCOUVER — Markets have recently demonstrated that when cost optics or feasibilities suddenly shift on an advance-stage mining project, the company in question will inevitably face investor-driven wrath. So the story goes for…
Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-N) chief executive Steve Letwin says the cash-rich miner plans to spend $400-$500 million on an acquisition in the Americas over the coming months. The mid-tier gold producer has about $1.4 billion in cash and no debt and…
Augusta Resource (AZC-T, AZC-X) is slowly but surely pushing its Rosemont project in Arizona towards production by securing the sixth major permit needed to start building the primarily copper project located in Pima County, 50 km southeast of…
Just a few months after Rio Tinto (RIO-N) took a controlling 51% stake in Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N, IVN-Q), billionaire founder and chief executive Robert Friedland has resigned from the company, along with five other members of the senior…
Katanga Mining (KAT-T) is gearing up to take a big copper project and make it that much bigger.
VANCOUVER — The world’s largest, publicly-traded copper producer, Phoenix-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N), is standing tough in the face of simmering labour turmoil and nationalisation overtures aimed at its…
VANCOUVER — It’s been a long haul for Toronto-based developer First Nickel (FNI-T) as it strives to revive commercial production at its Lockerby nickel-copper mine outside of Sudbury, Ontario.
Just a few months after Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) took a controlling 51% stake in Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N, IVN-Q), billionaire founder and chief executive Robert Friedland has resigned from the company along with five other members of the…
Ivanhoe Australia’s (IVA-T, IVA-A) acquisition in September 2010 of the Osborne copper-gold processing complex in northwestern Queensland will help transform the company into a significant base metal producer and much of its mill feed is…
Just two weeks after the Aluminum Corporation of China announced that it intended to make a proportional takeover bid for up to 60% of SouthGobi Resources’ (SGQ-T) issued and outstanding shares, and Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N, IVN-Q)…
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