Vale S.A.

Western Potash expands 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 world’s…




A new play on Brazilian potash

For investors hungry for a new way to play rising food prices through potash juniors, a new avenue with experienced management should soon be tradable in Toronto. Toronto-based Rio Verde Minerals, currently a privately held company, plans to…


Royal Nickel to build ‘monster’ nickel project

On paper, Royal Nickel (RNX-T) looks like a winning combination: A management and advisory team stacked with former Inco guys and seven billion pounds of nickel in the ground in Quebec’s Abitibi region, one of the friendliest mining…


Chile's Mines Minister Laurence Golborne.

The way from San Jose

Last October’s miraculous rescue of 33 trapped miners at San Jose has catapulted Chile’s Mines Minister Laurence Golborne to the forefront of national politics, even to the point that some are talking of him as a possible presidential candidate…



New play on Brazilian potash set to arrive

For investors hungry for a new way to play rising food prices through potash juniors, a new avenue with experienced management should soon be arriving in Toronto.


Editorial: Gov’t stepping slowly into Voisey’s strike

The first week of 2011 saw the public release of a candid and rather damning report by a Newfoundland & Labrador government-appointed commission on the 17-month strike by 120 members of United Steelworkers Local 9508 at Vale’s Voisey’s Bay…




Who Is In Prison? Yes, That’s Right.

The always-tense, annual iron ore pricing negotiations between Western producers and Chinese consumers got ratcheted up to a full-blown diplomatic crisis between the Chinese and Australian governments…


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