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Canada’s daunting, undeveloped Arctic iron ore deposits got a lot of attention in late September with two significant deals.

It’s fair to say that a distrust of government is only one of the things that Marc Faber and Ron Paul share in common.

Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) is donating $10 million to the downtown Vancouver campus of Simon Fraser University (SFU). To acknowledge the gift, the university’s new arts complex will be named the Goldcorp Ce…

Teck Resources (TCK. B-T, TCK-N) has signed a joint-venture agreement with Suncor Energy (SU-T, SU-N) to develop the Wintering Hills wind energy project, 20 km southeast of Drumheller, Alta.

Toromont Industries (an Ontario Caterpillar dealer) has won a contract to supply up to 36 350-ton class Caterpillar 795F haulage trucks for Detour Gold’s (DGC-T) Detour Lake gold project in northeaste…

Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) will invest $16 million to install driver monitoring systems in its fleet of vehicles worldwide. The technology was developed by Utah-based inthinc Technology Solutions, wh…

PEOPLE Blackstone Ventures — Stuart Angus, Kelvin Dushnisky and Michael Knuckey resigned as directors; Don Njegovan appointed a director. Camino Minerals — Francois Gaboury appointed chief geologist. CB Gold —…

The TSX composite index was up a modest 14 points to finish the Sept 20-24 period at 12,204.86. The big story was the Canadian dollar’s failure to rise despite a weakening U.S. greenback. While most m…

The S&P-TSX Venture composite index enjoyed another strong week between Sept. 20 and 24, closing at 1,699.55, an advance of 37.59 points or 2.3%. Over the period, 108 Venture-listed companies reac…

Economic uncertainty along with worries about European debt levels, coupled with comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it was prepared to take action to help the recovery and lift inflation and …

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