Detour Gold (DGC-T) is raising $240 million in equity to finish building its Detour Lake mine near Cochrane, Ont., in hopes of becoming “Canada’s largest gold mining operation,” states the company’s president and CEO, Gerald Panneton, in a…
Toronto Stock Exchange
Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Jan. 30, 2012 (change from Jan. 23 in brackets):
The rolling hills and purple heather of northern England’s North Yorkshire Moors are more associated with tourism these days than with the area’s long-shut iron ore mines and blast furnaces. Where mining and industrial activity once formed part…
With the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia celebrating its 100th anniversary at this year’s Mineral Exploration Roundup in Vancouver, it was only fitting that most of the projects highlighted in the Tuesday sessions had long…
Trying to build a gold mine in a sub-Saharan African country that has never had a modern mine is never an easy task. But the process seems to have been particularly arduous for Axmin (AXM-V).
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$12,250.00/t
Entourage Metals (EMT-V) has added a second drill rig to its Black Raven gold prospect in the Schreiber-Hemlo greenstone belt of northern Ontario following encouraging first-pass drill results.
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Calibre Mining’s (CXB-V) share price jumped to 50¢ from 19¢ with 42.5 million shares traded over two days after it announced three long gold-copper intercepts from its Primavera prospect in northeastern Nicaragua. B2 Gold (BTO-T)…
The month of January closed out with Vale having temporarily halted all underground mining at its five nickel mines in Sudbury, Ont., following the death of a miner at the Coleman mine on Jan. 29.