Industrial/Specialty Minerals

Commerce Resources releases final 2010 rare-earth assays

Assays for the final five holes from Commerce Resources’ (CCE-V, CMRZF-O) 2010 drill program at its Ashram rare-earth zone on its Eldor project in northern Quebec bring the junior one step closer to completing a National Instrument 43-101…


Commodities roundup

Vancouver – The final technical session at the Mineral Exploration Roundup in Vancouver took a look at the potential of thermal coal, uranium, vanadium, molybdenum, copper, and of course, gold.


The Case for Tungsten

While gold, silver, copper and rare earths have been drawing much of the markets’ attention in the metals space recently, another metal has been quietly gathering steam.


China cuts export quotas for rare earths

Shares of rare earth element companies reached new heights when markets reopened after the Christmas holidays on Dec. 29, 2010, following news that China had cut export quotas for the strategic metals by 35% year-on-year.The Ministry of…



TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE January 4-7

The shortened first week of trading in the New Year saw the S&P-TSX Venture composite index drop 62.46 points between Jan. 4 and 7 to end at 2,225.39. Volumes were back to a brisk pace, averaging 164 million shares traded daily. Despite the…


Amazon’s Cerrado Verde: a game changer?

Any company whose stock has moved from 93¢ per share to a high of $8.00 over the course of a year deserves a closer look, and so it is with Amazon Mining Holding (amz-v).  


MDN is more than just a gold play (January 17, 2011)

MDN (mdn-t) may be best known for its 30% interest in the producing Tulawaka gold mine in Tanzania operated by Barrick Gold (abx-t, abx-n) and a portfolio of exploration projects in the surrounding Lake Victoria gold district. But some…


Taseko shrugs (January 11, 2011)

Taseko Mines’ (TKO-T, TGB-X) may have been knocked down by the Federal government’s ruling against its Prosperity mine, but that doesn’t mean the company has been knocked-out.


Energizer ups Green Giant

With vanadium demand increasing for new battery technologies, London’s Objective Capital Research says Energizer Resources (egz-v) and its Green Giant vanadium project in Madagascar is undervalued.Objective Capital, which states in its 40-page…


Positive study for Canada Lithium

Canada’s most advanced lithium project took a big step closer to production in mid-December when Canada Lithium (clq-t) produced a positive feasibility study for its Quebec Lithium project near Val d’Or, Que. The study found the deposit at…


Creston boosts NPV at El Creston (January 10, 2011)

Creston boosts NPV at El CrestonVancouver – A year of drilling and metallurgical work has given Creston Moly (cms-v) a big bump in the net present value (NPV) for its El Creston molybdenum deposit in Mexico.The new preliminary economic…


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