Uranium not so hot with Labrador Inuit
The week ended April 12, the 15th trading week of 2008, was punctuated by a setback for uranium explorers in Canada, as the Labrador Inuit government banned uranium mining for three years on the Labra…
Gold
Troy jumps on golden hole Down Under (April 21, 2008)
VANCOUVER–On the heels ofatemporary mill shutdown in Brazil that dragged its share price down, Troy Resources (TRY-T) rebounded with drill results out of Australia that prompted a 16% share gain.
Ecuador gives investors new bout of the shudders
The government of Ecuador has done what mineral investors the world over feared they might, and Canadian-based mine…
Acadian Mining to spin off gold assets
Halifax-based Acadian Mining (ADA-T) is spinning off its gold assets into a new public company to create value for…
Aurizon signs LOI with Radisson for gold property with high-grade past
Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T, AZK-X) is considering a joint venture with Radisson Mining (RDS-V) for the O’Brien-Kewagama p…
Osisko’s Canadian Malartic study predicts 14-year life
A scoping study of the Canadian Malartic gold project near Val d’Or, Que., suggests the deposit will produce 572,00…
An arrow towards production from Apollo
Apollo Gold (APG-T, AGT-X) is getting ready to take high grade ore out of the ground near Timmins. Unlike many ot…
Petaquilla further defines Molejon gold deposit
As Petaquilla Minerals (PTQ-T, PTQMF-O) gets set to bring its Molejon gold project in Panama into production this year, the company’s latest drill program has given it a better understanding of the de…
Exeter’s Caspiche delivers long intercepts
VANCOUVER — Its flagship Don Sixto gold project is still on hold because of Argentinean politics but Exeter Resource (XRC-V, XRA-X)keeps moving along, buoyed by promising results from its Caspiche co…
At last, a little blue sky for Gammon
Stung by a string of bad news over the last year from a third-quarter loss of US$44.8 million, startup problems at two gold operations in Mexico and allegations about stock-option manipulation and ina…
New Pacific sees lift on HNK drilling
A new high-grade gold vein assaying well into the double digits on New Pacific Metals’ (NUX-V, NUXFF-O) HNK property in Guangdong province, China, pushed its shares up 40% recently.
Proposed mines showing robust economics
The week ended April 5, the fourteenth trading week of 2008, started off on a high note, with a positive new economic study of the top Canadian gold play of the past year: Osisko Exploration’s wholly …