Guatemala’s president Otto Perez Molina plans to place a two-year moratorium on issuing new mining and exploration licences, giving the nation time to reform its mining law, says Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO).
Shares of Anfield Nickel (TSX: ANF) jumped 12% to $2.91 after Guatemala’s Ministry of Energy and Mines approved the first of three exploitation licences the junior has submitted for its Mayaniquel nickel laterite project.
Royal Nickel (RNX-T) has something to cheer about with a positive feasibility study tabled on its large-scale Dumont nickel-sulphide project in Quebec’s Abitibi region, 25 km west of the city of Amos and 60 km northeast from the…
VANCOUVER — Lundin Mining (LUN-T) has been shopping for a base metal asset to add to its production portfolio, and on June 12 the company found a partner in Rio Tinto (RIO-N, RIO-L), which was looking to unload its development-stage Eagle…
Ivanplats’ (IVP-T) shares lost 7% after the company updated the market on its three large precious and base metal projects in Africa.
Rainy River Resources’ (RR-T) president and CEO Raymond Threlkeld is touting the company’s Rainy River gold deposit in northwestern Ontario as “low risk and very high return.”
VANCOUVER — A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the Decar project in central B.C. estimates an open-pit mine at the site could produce nickel commercially for joint-venture owners First Point Minerals (FPX-T) and Cliffs Natural…
The TSX Composite Index was down nearly 6 points to end the March 11-15 week at 12,830.03 points, thanks to a 1% or 134-point decline on March 13.
VANCOUVER — Despite a 16% year-on-year jump in copper production Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals (FM-T, FQM-L) told a familiar story during an annual report on its 2012 fiscal year: falling average realized copper prices and rising…
Sherritt International (S-T) has shouldered such industry-wide hardships as lower commodity prices and higher costs, but the company is signalling its bullishness for the future by increasing its dividend, despite reporting a…
Sherritt International (S-T) had to shoulder some of the same industry wide hardships as lower commodity prices and higher costs, but the company signaled its bullishness for the future by increasing its dividend despite reporting a fourth…
In a speech on the state of the global mining industry, Ian Delaney, chairman of Sherritt International (S-T), stated that the world has entered an era of resource scarcity, in which most large-scale, high-grade deposits have already been…
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