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First Quantum speeds up Kansanshi production
The Kansanshi copper mine in northwestern Zambia will go into production at a higher rate, under a plan unveiled by operator
Cross Lake gears up for more drilling at Ruddock Creek
Vancouver — With last season’s drilling ending on a high note, Vancouver-based
Avocet to sell Primary Metals block
The best story in town: Jubilee Mines
Perth, Western Australia — The rapid growth of Australian nickel production and proving up of new deposits is very much in the hands of junior companies that four years ago were either not born or ju…
Messina stirs up Buchans camp
It takes just one hot hole to put a company in play. In early December 2004, while drilling the Boomerang prospect, south of the Buchans camp in central Newfoundland,
Australia’s nickel boom
Perth, Western Australia — In mid-February, nickel miner
Diamond fever fuels staking rush in Canada’s Far North
Norsemont to option Peruvian porphyry
Vancouver — Revamped
Uranium pot stirs in Australia
Perth, Western Australia — In the early 1970s, Australia seemed like a new force in the global uranium industry: in the span of a few years, explorers Down Under were able to prove up 26% of the worl…
Swayze, Shining Tree recapture ray of limelight
On geological maps of northeastern Ontario, the Kenogamissi batholith sits like a giant blister on the heel of the Abitibi greenstone belt, interrupting the northeast-southwest flow of the prolific be…
Juniors climb on strong Metal Prices
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