If Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N) is successful in its bid for Consolidated Thompson (CLM-T) and its Bloom Lake mine on the south end of the Labrador Trough in Eastern Canada, it will in one easy stroke acquire a world-class ore body…
As European stocks advanced for the second straight week, banks and technology companies, led by JPMorgan Chase, sent U.S. stock indexes higher, marking a seventh week of gains. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 112.62 points, or 1%, to…
Precious-metals companies may have taken a hit during the Jan. 10-14 trading week but for companies with iron ore, copper, uranium and potash assets, the numbers looked pretty good. The TSX Composite index climbed 191.76 points or 1.45% to…
Any company whose stock has moved from 93¢ per share to a high of $8.00 over the course of a year deserves a closer look, and so it is with Amazon Mining Holding (amz-v).
With roles in the latest James Bond movies Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace and a parallel career on Broadway, actor Jeffrey Wright is a busy man. His performances have earned him a Tony, a Golden Globe and an Emmy, but over the last seven…
An 18-month search by Canarc Resource (ccm-t) for new acquisitions has culminated with the successful bid to buy a mostly built and permitted, open-pit, heap-leach gold mine in Nevada through a bankruptcy court auction.Canarc has agreed to buy…
MDN (mdn-t) may be best known for its 30% interest in the producing Tulawaka gold mine in Tanzania operated by Barrick Gold (abx-t, abx-n) and a portfolio of exploration projects in the surrounding Lake Victoria gold district. But some…
HudBay Minerals (hbm-t, hbm-n) is looking to venture farther south than it ever has before to acquire its next project. The company has made a friendly $520-million pitch to Norsemont Mining’s (nom-t) shareholders in the hope of nabbing…
The first week of 2011 saw the public release of a candid and rather damning report by a Newfoundland and Labrador government-appointed commission on the 17-month strike by 120 members of United Steelworkers Local 9508 at Vale’s Voisey’s Bay…
When it comes to metals with the best fundamentals, the consensus for 2011 seems to be that copper wins hands down. The industrial metal already rose more than 30% in 2010.”Everybody seems to be bullish on copper and I hate to be a consensus…
Global Change for Children (GC4C) will kick off its 2011 fundraising campaign at Mineral Exploration Roundup, to be held Jan. 24-27 in Vancouver.In keeping with the conference theme, “Exploring Today for Tomorrow’s Resources,” the registered…
Paul Lamond Smith (b. 1934) died peacefully at home on Jan. 8 in Shubenacadie, N.S.Born in Halifax, Smith studied geology at Mount Allison University. He worked in the mining industry in northern Ontario; Elliot Lake and at Kid Creek Mine in…
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