Industrial/Specialty Minerals

Equipment at Argex Titanium's titanium pilot plant in Mississauga, Ont., where the company is testing its proprietary solvent-extraction system. By Argex Titanium.

Argex aims to produce titanium near Baie-Comeau

Montreal-based Argex Titanium (RGX-V) is ­having a great year. The company’s shares have surged 142% over the past 10 months as the company has moved its proprietary solvent-extraction system towards commercial viability.


Ore stockpiled at MBAC Fertilizer's pilot plant at the Araxa REE-niobium-phosphate project in Minas Gerais, Brazil. By MBAC Fertilizer.

MBAC advances shallow REO deposit in Brazil

Toronto-based MBAC Fertilizer (MBC-T, MBCFF-O) has carved out a near-surface and high-grade rare earth oxide deposit that includes niobium and phosphate in the municipality of Araxa in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state and plans to complete a…


Drillers at Malaga's Pasto Bueno tungsten mine in Peru in late 2010. By Trish Saywell.

Malaga plummets after production halt

Malaga (MLG-T) shares lost a third of their value after the company suspended production at its Pasto Bueno tungsten plant in Peru, as it wrestles to keep costs down following a recent power outage at its underground operation.


PEA lifts Entre Gold, but Mongolian risk remains

Entrée Gold’s (ETG-T) shares rebounded after outlining encouraging economics at the Ann Manson copper-molybdenum porphyry deposit in Nevada, following a recent slump that the company attributed mostly to “current political…


Frontier Rare Earths inks new deal with KORES

A little under a year ago, Korea’s government-owned mining and natural resources investment company signed a deal with Frontier Rare Earths (FRO-T) to take a 10% interest and get the rights to an equal percentage of future production from…



Critical Elements eyes path to production

“You know when you find a mine in your life, you are lucky,” says Jean-Sébastien Lavallée, president and CEO of Critical Elements (CRE-V), which is advancing a bankable feasibility study on the Rose tantalum-lithium…


Argex targets titanium dioxide production

VANCOUVER — Montreal-based Argex Titanium (RGX-V) is having a great year. The company has surged 142% over the past ten months as it moves its proprietary solvent-extraction system towards commercial viability. Argex also maintains a…


MBAC advances high-grade REO deposit

Toronto-based MBAC Fertilizer Corp. (MBC-T, MBCFF-O) has carved out a near-surface and high-grade rare earth oxide deposit that includes niobium and phosphate in the municipality of Araxá in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state and plans to…


American Vanadium’s evolution fueled by technology

VANCOUVER — Just under two years ago Vancouver-based American Vanadium (AVC-V) envisioned itself as a specialty metals miner. The company planned to put its wholly-owned Gibellini vanadium deposit into production by the end of 2012…


Amerigo gets a boost from Q3 results

Amerigo Resources (ARG-T), which continues to produce copper and molybdenum from the tailings of Codelco’s 108-year-old El Teniente mine in Chile, saw its shares lift on the back of solid third-quarter production results.


Thompson Creek to cut costs, jobs

Thompson Creek Metals (TCM-T, TC-N) has hatched a new plan to reduce costs at its namesake molybdenum mine in Idaho, in order to gain more financial wiggle room to continue developing its Mount Milligan copper-gold mine in central B.C.


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