The S&P/TSX Composite Index gained for the sixth straight week, moving up 286.03 points to 15,111.13. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index added 5.67 points to 153.41, while the S&P/TSX Capped Diversified Metals & Mining Index climbed…
VANCOUVER — It’s been a wild year for Sean Roosen and his team at Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; US-OTC: OKSKF), but now that the dust has settled the company looks poised to become a major player in the royalty and…
The Northern Miner recently interviewed Sprott US Holdings chairman Rick Rule on commodity trends, his investment strategy and the junior exploration market. Listen to the podcast at www.northernminer.com, or read the edited transcript below:
If you want to find nickel mineralization in Quebec, probably one good place to start is near the past-producing Marbridge nickel mine — the only mine to have produced nickel in the Abitibi region and the first nickel sulphide…
Virginia Mines (TSX: VGQ) made its name, and a fortune, with its Eleonore discovery Quebec’s James Bay territory, but that doesn’t mean that it is done with the region yet.
Virginia Mines (TSX: VGQ; US-OTC: VGMNF) has sealed a deal with three institutional funds in Quebec that will help finance a $28-million accelerated exploration program on its Coulon project, a…
Shares of Virginia Mines (VGQ-T) closed 12¢ or 1.3% higher at $9.13 apiece while Altius Minerals (ALS-T) climbed 9¢ or 0.9% to $10.73 on news the two companies had struck a strategic alliance to cooperate on exploration for base and…
Modern technologies combined with robust metal prices helped generate many of the domestic and international exploration successes featured at Mineral Exploration Roundup hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME…
It is no easy task to find junior exploration companies these days with tangible assets and a steady share price able to withstand any mighty downdrafts that could accompany a wide-scale financial system collapse similar to the one seen in the…
It is no easy task to find junior exploration companies these days with tangible assets and a share price that might not drop too significantly should the current market uncertainty be a mere prelude to a wide-scale financial system collapse.
When Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) acquired Éléonore in March 2006 from what is now Virginia Mines (VGQ-T) in a US$425-million deal, the project had no reserve or resource estimate, just a lot of speculation on how big it was going to get…
Stornoway Diamond (SWY-T) and Soquem have started work on a feasibility study at their Renard joint venture in Quebec, while at the same time, attempting to expand resources at the…
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