Industrial/Specialty Minerals


Senior project geologist Hector Canales Lancho (left) inspects core at Focus Ventures' Bayovar 12 phosphate project in northern Peru. Credit: Focus Ventures

Focus aims for phosphate resource at Bayovar 12 in Q3

Focus Ventures’ (TSXV: FCV) Bayovar 12 phosphate project in northern Peru is shaping up quickly: the junior expects to release a maiden resource estimate in the third quarter, less than six months after announcing its first drill results…


US stocks drop, June 23-27

U.S. equities had a lacklustre trading week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 95 points from the week before to 16,851.84, while the broader S&P 500 Index slipped nearly 2 points to 1,960.96. Bucking the downward trend was the…




Drillers targeting the Sulphurets deposit at Seabridge Gold's KSM gold-copper project in northwestern B.C. Credit: Seabridge Gold

Seabridge goes deeper at KSM in BC

Seabridge Gold’s (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) chairman and CEO Rudi Fronk says the company anticipates good news from the exploration program it has launched at its KSM gold–copper project in northwestern B.C.




Hudbay Minerals Rosemont copper project in Arizona. Credit: Hudbay Minerals

Augusta says yes to sweetened Hudbay takeover

VANCOUVER — After a drawn-out takeover battle that tested proposed new regulations on the tenure of shareholder rights plans in B.C., Augusta Resource (TSX: AZC; NYSE-MKT: AZC) has agreed to a sweetened takeover bid from Hudbay Minerals…



Editorial: Ring road of fire?

The surprisingly strong majority win by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Liberal party in the provincial election in mid-June has given a boost to potential infrastructure development in the Ring of Fire chromite and base metals camp in…



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