Industrial/Specialty Minerals



Mosaic suspends Colonsay potash mine

Mosaic (NYSE: MOS) is temporarily shutting one of its three Saskatchewan potash operations, amid declining global demand and prices for potash. The major fertilizer producer will close the Colonsay potash mine…


Site visit: Largo is ‘all smiles’ in Brazil

MARACAS, BRAZIL — About an hour’s drive from Maracas — the city of flowers — is the first producing vanadium mine in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia. Toronto-based Largo Resources’…




A drill site at Nouveau Monde's Matawinie graphite project in Quebec. Credit: Nouveau Monde.

Nouveau Monde outlines 
economics for Matawinie

VANCOUVER — Eric Desaulniers, president and CEO of Nouveau Monde Mining (TSXV: NOU; US-OTC: NMGRF), reckons that lithium explorers aren’t the only ones that stand to benefit from Tesla Motors…


The project team in front of the 8 MW hour vanadium flow battery at the Zhangbei renewable energy project in February, 180 km north of Beijing, from left: chief technical officer Huang Mianyan, project coordinator Lee Barker and commercial manager Charles Ge. Credit: Sparton Resources.

Sparton banks on vanadium

Over the course of his 54 years in the business, Canadian geologist and engineer Lee Barker has had many rewarding moments. In the early 1970s he recognized and staked the…


company’s former VP Exploration, and now a consultant to the company, Adrian Mann

Angkor Gold reels in Jogmec

When Mike Weeks first started nosing around for mineral concessions in Cambodia in late 2008 and early 2009, the typical reaction he got from people in the business was that…





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