Nothing’s ever simple when it comes to Lundin Mining. This week, the volatile Vancouver-based international base-metals miner had its cozy proposed merger with Canada’s Inmet Mining fall apart in the face of a hostile, $4.8-billion bid by…
The mining sector was thrust into the media spotlight in 2010 as the number of mining mergers and acquisitions (M&A) hit an all-time high. A new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report tracked 2,693 global mining M&A deals worth US$113…
As tensions in Côte d’Ivoire continue to escalate, it is getting more difficult to determine if and when a stable investment environment may return to the country.
When Pele Mountain Resources (GEM-V) completed a scoping study in 2007 on its Eco Ridge mine project in Elliot Lake, Ont., the company didn’t even bother to include the deposit’s rare earth elements as a byproduct of the project’s planned…
After 25 years at the helm of Silver Standard Resources (SSO-T, SSRI-Q), Robert Quartermain is back in action with a start-up company called Pretium Resources (PVG-T).
Record gold production at low cash costs averaging US$186 per oz. contributed to a record net profit after-tax of US$58.1 million in the six months ended Dec. 31, 2010, Medusa Mining (MLL-T, MML-L, MML-A) reports.
A 50% increase of indicated resources at the Bakyrchik gold deposit “bodes well” for the definitive feasibility study that is due by June, Altynalmas Gold and Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N, IVN-Q) say.
A little ways off a quiet highway in eastern Nevada, freshly re-branded American Vanadium (AVC-V) is working to bring a vanadium heap-leach operation to life.
Iron ore mining and exploration in Quebec is focused in the northeast, but Georges-Yvan Gagnon, CEO of Augyva Mining Resources (AUV-V), is convinced there is great potential farther west in the province, specifically at the Duncan Lake project…
In late December 2010 a spokesman for the National Democratic Front (NDF), a confederation that encompasses many of the Philippines’ leftist groups – including the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its New People’s Army (NPA)…
In six years, Cyprus-based EMED Mining (EMD-T, EMED-L) has grown from being little more than a concept to a company with very real plans to restart copper production this year from the historic Rio Tinto open-pit copper mine in southwestern…
Three years, millions of dollars, and thousands of pages of impact studies later, there is still no guarantee that Strateco Resources (RSC-T) will be allowed to explore underground on its Matoush uranium project in northern Quebec’s Otish…
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