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Uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), most of which is owned by London-based Rio Tinto (RTP-N), has been charged in connection with a uranium spill at its Ranger mine in the Northern Territory.

Vancouver — Nevada Pacific Gold (NPG-V) has signed two more deals with Placer Dome (PDG-T) on gold properties in northern Nevada, one in the Cortez area and the other in the Carlin trend.

Stock markets south of the border moved sideways over the trading period Sept. 15-21, with a quarter-point interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve making little impact on share prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off fractionally at…

Fortescue Metals Group is posing a challenge to the dominance of BHP Billiton (BHP-N) and Rio Tinto (RTP-N) in Western Australia’s iron ore sector.

Midway through a US$10-million exploration campaign at the Cortez gold mine in Nevada, Placer Dome (PDG-T) has started a feasibility study. The move comes after the major increased proven and probable reserves by 2 million oz.,…

Vancouver — A preliminary economic assessment of NovaGold Resources‘ (NG-T) Galore Creek project, in the Stikine gold belt of northwestern British Columbia, envisions an open-pit operation capable of mining 30,000 tonnes per da…

Downbeat economic news, high crude oil prices, and the expectation that the U.S. Federal Reserve would increase interest rates brought U.S. stock markets lower in the reporting period Aug. 4-9. The S&P 500 Index fell 34.47 points, or 3.1%, to 1,06…

Drilling at the High Lake West Zone base metal deposit in Nunavut have intersected wide intervals of massive sulphide mineralization.