2011

Fission’s Roughrider area play has shareholders glowing green

With the power play for Hathor Exploration’s (HAT-T) promising Roughrider uranium deposit now in its fourth (but perhaps not final) act, Saskatchewan’s Athabasca basin is taking centre stage in the battle for the world’s next best uranium…


Midway pushes Pan to feasibility

Midway Gold’s (MDW-V, MDW-X) new feasibility study for its Pan gold project in White Pine Cty., Nev., shows it’s viable to build at various gold prices.


Mark Smith, Molycorp's president and CEO. For more than 24 years, Smith has been involved in the operation and development of the Mountain Pass rare earth element mine in southeastern California, seen in the background. Photo by Trish Saywell

Molycorp’s Mountain Pass: A made-in-America solution

In late October Molycorp (MCP-N) bused journalists from Fortune, Wired, Mother Jones and The Northern Miner, among others, down Interstate Highway 15 from Las Vegas to meet president and chief executive Mark Smith and tour the company’s…




Orocobre – Argentina’s next low-cost lithium producer?

Brisbane-based Orocobre (ORL-T, ORE-A) is looking to become a significant new producer of lithium with its advanced-stage Salar de Olaroz lithium-potash brine project in northwestern Argentina. The company already has a definitive feasibility…


Munk gives $18M to heart research

Peter Munk, founder and chairman of Barrick Gold (abx-t, abx-n), and his wife, Melanie, donated $18 million to his namesake cardiac centre at Toronto General Hospital, which is part of the University Health Network (UHN).


Bulgarian government gives the nod to DPM

The wait is over as Dundee Precious Metals (DPM-T) finally secured an approval on its environmental impact assessment (EIA) for its Krumovgrad Gold project in Bulgaria.


Salazar reports high-grade from Ecuador

Diamond drilling at Salazar Resources’ (SRL-V) 100%-owned Curipamba volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project in Ecuador has yielded more high-grade precious and base metal mineralization over significant widths at the El Domo deposit,…


Citation enters Guerrero Gold Belt

Vancouver – Yet another explorer has decided to try their hand in the Guerrero Gold Belt of southwest Mexico, with Citation Resources (CTT-V) signing an option agreement on a block of property there.



Allana sketches a $796M capex for Dallol

Allana Potash (aaa-t) has started painting a somewhat rosy picture at its Dallol potash project in Ethiopia with a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA), estimating start-up costs at US$796 million.


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