Industrial/Specialty Minerals

Iamgold sees big potential at Niobec (May 04, 2011)

Vancouver – By re-evaluating the mining method at its niobium-producing Niobec mine in Quebec, Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-N) has established that it could drastically increase the contained resource and production with a switch to bulk mining.


Allana just keeps on growing Dallol

Allana Potash (AAA-V) continues to define what is shaping into a world class potash play in Ethiopia. The company has grabbed the market’s attention over the last 12 months with shallow depth intercepts of up to 37.8 % KCl and now Allana says…


Western Potash expands Milestone resource

Western Potash (WPX-V) has boosted measured resources by 55%, indicated resources by 34%, and inferred resources by 25% at its Milestone potash project in Saskatchewan, about 50 km south of Mosaic’s (MOS-N) Belle Plaine mine, one of the…





Woulfe Mining works towards decision at Sangdong

At its height, the Sangdong mine in South Korea was one of the largest tungsten-molybdenum mines in the world. But after a forty-year run, the mine was shut down in 1993 when the price of ammonium paratungstate (APT) fell to US$40 per metric…





Mercator to buy Creston Moly for $195 million

Vancouver – Mercator Minerals (ML-T) has entered an agreement to buy Creston Moly (CMS-V) in a friendly merger with significant potential for synergies that values Creston at $195 million.


Western Copper releases updated Casino study

Vancouver – Western Copper (WRN-T, WRN-X) has released an updated prefeasibility study for its sizable but remote polymetallic Casino project in the Yukon, three years and a commodity-price rollercoaster after the first.


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