Industrial/Specialty Minerals

Largo Resources' Maracas vanadium mine in Brazil, where Anglo Pacific Group holds a 2% net smelter return royalty. Credit: Largo Resources.

Anglo Pacific has ‘turned the corner,’ CEO says

For Anglo Pacific Group (TSX: APY; LSE: APF), royalty income in the first half surpassed all of the royalty income earned last year. And while the company posted an after-tax loss for the six months ended June 30, it was a much smaller one than…



TSX ends up higher, Aug. 24-28

The Toronto Stock Exchange finished in positive territory as investors took in higher oil prices and news that the Chinese government cut interest rates again to bolster its slowing economy. The S&P/TSX Composite climbed for four…





Outcropping SST formation rocks at Select Sands' Sandtown frac sand project in Arkansas. Source: Select Sands

Ex-gold explorer dives into Select Sands

Select Sands’ (TSXV: SNS; OTC: CLICF) president and CEO Rasool Mohammad has chosen silica “frac” sand over gold, and hopes his bet will pay off with success at the junior’s frac sand Sandtown property in Arkansas, where…



Looking west along a trans-lithospheric fault of the Garder-Voisey's Bay system on Equitas Resources' Garland nickel property in Labrador. Source: Equitas Resources

Equitas hunts next Voisey’s Bay

Junior Equitas Resources (TSXV: EQT; US-OTC: EQTRF) has kicked off a second phase of exploration at its Garland nickel-copper-cobalt property in Newfoundland and Labrador, with the hope of discovering deeper Voisey’s Bay-style…


Drill rigs at NioCorp Developments' Elk Creek niobium project in southeastern Nebraska. Credit: NioCorp Developments.

NioCorp CEO provides cash to company

For the second time in less than two months, Mark Smith of NioCorp Developments (TSX: NB; US-OTC: NIOBF) has dug into his own pockets for loans to the company he leads.


Consultant Tony Mariano (left) and Tasman Metals chief geologist Magnus Leijd at the Norra Karr rare earth project, 300 km southwest of Stockholm, Sweden. Source: Tasman Metals

Tasman’s Norra Karr on top of Europe’s wish list

VANCOUVER — The global rare earth element supply crisis in 2010 served as a “wake-up call” to businesses and governments, and future supply “poses supply security concerns,” according to a recent study commissioned…


Les Ford, Largo Resources technical director of Brazil operations, at the Maracas vanadium project in Brazil. Source: Largo Resources

Stars to realign for Largo in Brazil

Largo Resources (TSXV: LGO; US-OTC: LGORF) is keeping its 2015 guidance at the Maracas Menchen vanadium mine in Bahia, Brazil, despite the slower-than-expected ramp up. 


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