High-Grade at Midwest
Vancouver — Winter drilling by joint-venture partners Areva Resources Canada, a subsidiary of French energy company Areva (ARVCF-O), and Denison Mines (DML-T, DMLCF-O) hit considerable intervals of h…
Uranium
U3O8 Explores Guyana’s Remote Interior
It’s been more than 20 years since anyone’s gone looking for uranium in Guyana, but after a lot of digging around for uranium indoors, Toronto-based U3O8 (UWE-V, UTREF-O) has recently begun a 2,500-me…
Uranium North Homes in on Nunavut
Fledgling Uranium North Resources (UNR-V, URNMF-O) plans to spend $3 million this season to explore several projects after accumulating an extensive land package that includes both ground inherited fr…
Going Underground at Shea Creek
Vancouver — Areva Resources Canada, a subsidiary of French energy giant Areva (ARVCF-O) has informed its joint-venture partner UEX (UEX-T, UEXCF-O) that it plans to sink a shaft at their Shea Creek u…
Bayswater-Kilgore Combo Broadens Uranium Portfolio
Vancouver — With a plan to merge, Bayswater Uranium (BAY-V, BAYFF-O) and Kilgore Minerals (KAU-V, KLGRF-O) look to create a more diversified explorer with a footprint in all the major uranium distric…
Uranium Resuscitates Icon
Icon Industries (ICN-V) has neither a geologist nor a website, and its new uranium property, in the Otish basin of Quebec, has no name, but the market’s recent infatuation with uranium has forced the …
Arianne Makes Switch to Uranium
Gold explorer Arianne Resources (DAR-V, DARUF-O) is jumping on the uranium train.
Why Chubut’s Treasures May Stay Buried
Santiago, Chile — The windswept steppes of Chubut in southern Argentina hide some of the country’s most promising deposits of minerals, including gold, silver and uranium. But local opposition to min…
U.S. Uranium Auction Breaks US$100 Barrier
Vancouver — Spot uranium prices, having recently broken through the US$100-a-lb. barrier, should continue to rise as utilities and U.S. hedge funds scramble to buy up available supplies of the radioa…
Restless SXR Uranium One Steps Up the Pace
SXR Uranium One (SXR-T, SXRFF-O) has come a long way in less than two years; formed at the end of 2005 with the aim of becoming a senior uranium producer, the company is closing in on its goal with a …
Wealth Eyes Argentina’s Uranium Riches
Vancouver — Wealth Minerals (WML-V, WMLLF-O) believes its Diamante-Los Patos uranium property in northwestern Argentina could lead to proverbial riches in the form of a potential large-tonnage, near-…
Nova Moves Ahead With Drilling
Nova Uranium (NUC-V, NVURF-O) has completed its phase-three drill program of 28 drill holes totalling 2,450 metres at its Mont Laurier project in Quebec, 200 km northwest of Montreal.