Strategic private placements, private equity and joint-venture partnerships are playing a bigger role in financing exploration and development projects in the mining sector, a group of Canadian bankers agreed during…
It didn’t take long for Stornoway Diamond (TSX: SWY) to realize that it had a problem with diamond breakage at its newly built Renard mine, 360 km north of Chibougamau,…
Canada is the fifth-largest diamond producer in the world, according to the Mining Association of Canada. Last year two new diamond mines came into production: Gahcho Kué in the Northwest…
VANCOUVER — Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; NYSE: OR) CEO Sean Roosen says his firm had been “keeping the powder dry” in anticipation of a transaction that would make it a…
For more than a few Quebecers, walking amongst some of the earth’s oldest rocks is an everyday occurrence. Almost 90% of the bedrock in the province belongs to the Canadian…
Diamond equities have had a rough ride in 2015, but what about next year? In an interview in early November, Matthew O’Keefe, vice-president and senior analyst at Dundee Capital Markets,…
Since it raised $946 million last July to build its Renard diamond mine in Quebec, Stornoway Diamond (TSX: SWY) has kept construction and engineering at the project on time and…
Lukas Lundin, the chairman of Lucara Diamond may be bullish on diamonds (see Page 5), but he doesn’t see things improving for diamond juniors in the near term. “The general…
At press time in mid-October, a feasibility study for Stornoway Diamond‘s (SWY-T) 100%-owned Renard project, in Quebec, was due out within weeks. While Stornoway president and CEO Matt Manson said…
Nearly 20 years ago, when Dia Met and BHP Billiton announced the discovery that would become the Ekati diamond mine, there were more than a few skeptics who doubted that…
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…
IQALUIT —There don’t seem to be many places at Peregrine Diamonds’ (PGD-T) 49%-owned Chidliak project, on Baffin Island, 120 km northeast of Iqaluit, that are sheltered from the arctic wind,…
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