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Chile, Peru must meet energy challenges as mining booms

VANCOUVER — The Andean nations of Chile and Peru are firmly established as the top copper producing locales in the world. Chile holds the number one spot with annual production clocking in at roughly 4.9 million tonnes, while Peru sits in…


Labrador Iron Mines: Canada’s newest iron-ore producer

Toronto-based Labrador Iron Mines (LIM-T) is first out of the gate to cash-in on Canada’s reinvigorated iron-ore hotspot in the Labrador Trough district. Labrador Iron is one of a handful of Canadian developers looking to market iron ore…


Harry Winston Q1 misses consensus

Harry Winston Diamond’s (HW-T, HWD-N) earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2013 tripled to US$11.6 million on higher rough diamond sales and stronger retail performance, but missed analysts’ expectations.  


Is more uranium consolidation on the way?

The Fukushima nuclear disaster may have winded the nuclear power and uranium markets, but the furious pace of consolidation in the uranium mining sector is leaving investors betting on the next takeover target.So far this year, no less than…


Changes for Ivanhoe as Rio Tinto takes driver’s seat

Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) is shifting gears as it adjusts to Rio Tinto (RIO-N) having acquired a majority ownership stake in the company, and first production approaches at its Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold-silver mine in Mongolia.Ivanhoe released…


Labrador Iron Mines: Canada’s newest iron-ore producer

VANCOUVER — Toronto-based Labrador Iron Mines (LIM-T) is first out of the gate as the race is on to cash-in on Canada’s reinvigorated iron-ore hotspot in the Labrador Trough district. Labrador Iron is one of a handful of Canadian…


Colt hunts gold and tungsten in Portugal

Montreal-based junior explorer Colt Resources (GTP-V) has focused on a few different projects since it hit the TSX Venture Exchange last February, but its eye has always been on Portugal.


Will cost inflation challenge supply growth?

Capex costs in the copper mining industry rose 33% on average in the fourth quarter of last year leaving in their wake “no shortage of examples of cost blow outs this year,” Barclay’s commodities research team pens in a new…


The camp at Pitchstone Resources' Gumboot uranium project in northern Saskatchewan's Athabasca basin. Photo by Pitchstone Resources

Fission Energy grows in the Athabasca

With grades over 10 times the global average, the Athabasca basin is home to some of the world’s richest uranium deposits, and one junior is looking to lock-up a significant amount of that prospectiveness for itself.


ESO Uranium project manager Garrett Ainsworth (left) with his father Ben, vice-president of exploration, at the Patterson Lake South uranium project in Saskatchewan. Photo by ESO Uranium

ESO Uranium digs into the Athabasca basin

Ben Ainsworth joined the board of Hathor Exploration in 2005 and served as vice-president of exploration during the junior’s development of its high-grade Roughrider uranium deposit in northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca basin, about…



Drilling at Peregrine Diamonds' Chidliak project.

Roughing it: A roundup of diamond juniors

Afri-Can Marine Minerals (AFA-V) completed a sampling program last April at the EPL 3403 seabed diamond project off the coast of Namibia. The company recovered 84 diamonds, 15 of which…


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