Mirabela resource grows
Mirabela Nickel (MNB-T, MBN-A) has calculated a new resource for its Santa Rita hard-rock nickel deposit in Brazil,…
Copper
Forecasters put Copper up and zinc down for 2008
In their report on copper and zinc prices, Scotia Capital analysts Onno Rutten and Lawrence Smith upped their coppe…
Dorato soars on Peruvian acquisition plans (November 21, 2007)
Vancouver – Dorato Resources (DRI.H-V, DRIFF-O) has emerged from a trading halt with plans to acquire a major land …
Nachingwea results give Continental huge boost
Vancouver – Assay results from the companys first seven holes into the Nachingwea nickel sulphide project in Tanza…
First Metals begins production at Fabie Bay
First Metals (FMA-T) is finally shipping ore from its Fabie Bay open pit in Rouyn-Noranda, Que.Ore is being cru…
Aguablanca getting bigger for Lundin
Lundin Minings (LUN-T, LMC-N, LUMI-O) late summer acquisition of Rio Narcea and its Aguablanca project in southern…
Ironing out possible mega merger
Spurned by the board of Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L, RIO-A) in a friendly approach, BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-L, BHP-A) has made its proposal for a US$138-billion all-share bid public in an attempt to brin…
Mongolia’s minefield
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia — Mining executives at the recent Discover Mongolia 2007 Conference spoke out strongly against controversial mining laws they claim are strangling mine development and urged the…
Scorpio finds promising zone
The Nuestra Senora polymetallic deposit in Sinaloa state, Mexico, continues to shape up as an underground mine-to-be for Scorpio Mining (SPM-T, SMNPF-O).
VMS raises $19.5M for Reed Lake
Vancouver — The first drill results from the Reed Lake copper-zinc discovery made waves in the market in recent weeks. Now VMS Ventures (VMS-V, VMSTF-O) has raised $19.5 million to fund continued exp…
Benton, Teck set drill targets
Benton Resources (BTC-V, BNRJF-O) has assayed the last of 324 grab samples taken this summer from its Kingurutik Lake copper-nickel-cobalt property in Labrador, confirming mineralization in numerous z…
Dome Lemieux nothing if not complicated
SITE VISIT Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Que. — “Are we sitting on a magmatic deposit?” asks an investor on a recent tour of Threegold Resources’ (THG-V, TRLDF-O) Dome Lemieux project, as he joins…