High Potash prices can’t save jobs
Gold, uranium and potash have been the three bright spots for the mining sector through what has been a historicall…
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Bard boasts 200 million lbs. of moly at Lone Pine
Bard Ventures (CBS-V) will continue drilling on its Lone Pine project 15 km northwest of Houston, BC, after a posit…
El Nino falls on results from new DRC project
Vancouver – The first full set of drill results from El Nino Ventures’ (ELN-V) Kasala copper discovery in the…
Pan American ramping up 2009 silver production
Vancouver – Despite cutting its workforce by about 500 employees, reigning in expenditures on exploration and…
Glencore moving in on Katanga
Facing financial distress Katanga Mining’s (KAT-T) shareholders have agreed to allow the world’s largest commodity …
Positive economics for Western Prospector in Mongolia
Despite cost increases the economics are still profitable for Western Prospector’s (WNP-V) Gurvanbulag deposit in…
B2Gold moves ahead with Gramalote project
Now that B2Gold (BTO-T) has had a look at more than 30,000 metres worth of drill core assays from its Gramalote gol…
Anatolia arranges US$62.5M loan
Vancouver – UniCredit Group, a major European bank, approved a US$62.5 million debt facility for Anatolia Min…
Shore Gold pushes ahead with reduced 2009 budget
Vancouver – Canadian diamond explorer Shore Gold (SGF-T) is planning to spend $18 million in 2009 in a significan…
Spectacular drill results for Colossus at Serra Pelada
Drilling at the site of Brazil’s epic 1980s gold rush at Serra Pelada is yielding spectacular results for joi…
Nayarit Hits Best Gold Yet At Orion
VANCOUVER– Drilling in the northwestern corner of Nayarit Gold’s (NYG-V, NYRTF-O) Orion property, 110 km north of Tepic, Mexico, has returned 25 metres grading 6.63 grams gold per tonne and 500.9 gra…
Mirabela Adds To Santa Rita Resource
Mirabela Nickel (MNB-T, MBN-A) likes to describe its Santa Rita project in Brazil as the world’s largest greenfield nickel sulphide discovery in the last 12 years.