2011


Tough times for TSX

It was rough ride for investors over the May 2-6 period as the TSX Composite Index fell 383 points to finish up at 13,601.49. The drop was severe enough, and accompanied by enough volume, to ignite worries that a significant correction to the…




Facilities at Crowflight Minerals' Bucko Lake underground nickel mine in northern Manitoba. Photo by Crowflight Minerals

Crowflight’s fresh start at Bucko Lake

With a new management team, a few hundred million more shares outstanding, a new head-office city, and a different mining strategy all instituted in recent months, Crowflight Minerals (CML-T) looks to be the same company in name only, and even…


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…


Premier updates Hardrock

After two years of exploration, measured and indicated resources have jumped by 269% to 2.5 million oz.  at Premier Gold Mines’ (PG-T) 70%-owned Hardrock gold project near Geraldton in northwestern Ontario. Inferred resources have grown by…


Industry group worries about rare-earth supply

How fast Chinese exports of rare earths get to zero is the $64,000 question, Keith Delaney, executive director of the Rare Earth Industry and Technology Association, told participants on a private conference call on March 31.



Peruvian tailings issues hurt Century

Peru’s Ministry of Mines has allowed Century Mining (CMM-V) to resume milling and processing operations at its San Juan gold mine after the ministry completed an evaluation of the mine’s tailings dams. The company has yet to downgrade its gold…


Soltoro finds new bonanza-grade silver structure

Drill results from the previously untested Soledad structure on Soltoro’s (SOL-V) El Rayo silver project in Mexico’s Jalisco state, 100 km southwest of Guadalajara, have revealed high-grade silver over significant widths in a near-surface ore…



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