Uranium

A worker watches the first load of concentrate from Hudbay Minerals' Constancia copper-moly-gold-silver mine leave for China from Peru. Credit: Hudbay Minerals

Hudbay hits commercial production at Constancia

Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) has stayed on course with its ambitious growth plans over the last five years, bringing online three new mines, with the latest being the large Constancia copper-molybdenum-gold-silver mine in Peru.


Kivalliq Energy exploration manager Bill Cronk (left) and geologist Jacques Stacey at the Angilak uranium property in Nunavut. Credit: Kivalliq Energy

Kivalliq ready to drill Dipole at Angilak

VANCOUVER — Explorer Kivalliq Energy (TSXV: KIV; US-OTC: KVLQF) has spent the past few years building a substantial uranium resource along the promising Lac 50 trend, 350 km west of the Rankin Inlet in Nunavut, but it’s an upcoming…




Wall Street marches higher, April 6-10

U.S. stocks rose for a second straight week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 294.41 points to 18,057.65 and the S&P 500 Index gained 35.1 points to finish at 2,102.06. Both indexes were up 1.7%. The Nasdaq Composite rose 2.2% to…


Editorial: Canada, India reunite over uranium

How long do you hold a grudge before letting bygones be bygones? For the Canadian government, it’s about 40 years when it comes to the Indian government’s betrayal over its use of peaceful Canadian nuclear technology to build a…


At the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto in March, from left: Al Shefsky, president of Pele Mountain Resources; Michael Gravelle, Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines; Janis Peleshok, director; Martin Cooper, vice-president of Aboriginal Affairs; and Margie Bugarin, resource administrator. Source: Pele Mountain Resources

Pele Mountain moves monazite processing plan ahead

When Pele Mountain Resources (TSXV: GEM; US-OTC: GOLDF) announced a strategy in October 2014 to extract and separate rare earth elements from monazite concentrate imported from overseas at its Eco Ridge project in Elliott Lake, the plan caught…




Wall Street ends in the red, March 2-6

U.S. stocks tumbled during the first week of March as investors worried the strong monthly jobs report might trigger the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates sooner than expected. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 276 points, or 1.5%,…


Facilities at Whitehaven Coal's Narrabri thermal coal mine in New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Whitehaven Coal

Contrarian investor Anglo Pacific picks up coal royalty

Anglo Pacific Group (TSX: APY; LSE: APF) is forking over US$60 million in cash and US$5 million in shares for a royalty on Whitehaven Coal’s (US-OTC: WHITF; ASX: WHC) Narrabri thermal coal mine in Australia at a time when the price of…


An antelope near a drill site at Azarga Uranium's Dewey Burdock uranium project in South Dakota. Credit: Azarga Uranium.

Azarga cuts initial capex by 50% in Dewey Burdock PEA

An upgraded resource estimate that confirms its flagship Dewey Burdock in-situ recovery (ISR) uranium project is the highest-grade ISR project among its North American peers, and a revised preliminary economic assessment (PEA) that has cut the…


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