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North American Nickel's Maniitsoq nickel-copper project on Greenland's southwestern coast. Photo by North American Nickel

North American Nickel’s interstellar story at Maniitsoq

It is not often that a mining company finds itself headlining space publications and astronomy journals, but that is exactly what happened to North American Nickel (NAN-V, WSCRF-O) when the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland announced…


Kinross names new CEO

Kinross Gold’s (K-T, KGC-N, KNRSF-O) Tye Burt joins the growing ranks of fallen CEOs at companies struggling to keep investors satisfied at a time of depressed share prices, cost inflation, project delays and internal reviews of assets….


Construction at Detour Gold's Detour Lake gold project in northern Ontario. Photo by Sam Crittenden

Detour Lake in line for 2013 start-up

Detour Gold (DGC-T) says the Detour Lake open-pit mine in northeastern Ontario remains on budget and track for initial gold production in early 2013.Construction at the project reached the 75% completion mark at the end of June. More…


Sabina Gold makes progress in Nunavut

Drill results from Sabina Gold & Silver’s (SBB-T) Back River project in southwestern Nunavut about 520 km northeast of Yellowknife and 50 km southeast of Xstrata Zinc Canada’s Hackett River silver-zinc project, demonstrate the…


HudBay inks deal with Silver Wheaton

Construction of the $1.5 billion Constancia copper mine in southern Peru is a go and HudBay Minerals (HBM-T, HBM-N) has signed a streaming agreement with Silver Wheaton (SLW-T) to help foot the bill.


Northern Tiger reawakens Sleeping Giant

VANCOUVER — Northern Tiger Resources (NTR-V) has renewed interest in the Sleeping Giant zone at 3Ace project in southeast Yukon with some encouraging sampling results.



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Ontario and Quebec propose changes to mining rules

Interestingly, both Ontario and Quebec are proposing significant changes to their respective mining legislation.In Ontario, the public comment period closed on May 1, 2012, on six regulatory proposals under the Ontario Mining Act that were…


Toronto Stock Exchange

The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 231 points to 11,766.36 for the period as investors focused on possible monetary easing and a stabilizing European debt crisis. Optimism had been spurred on by the European Central Bank’s pledge to do…


TSX Venture Exchange

The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index slipped 5.55 points during the period to end at 1,190.64 points after two days of losses outweighed three days of gains. Volume was down considerably, coming in 20 million shares lower than the week…



Short position reports

TSX Short Positions       Short positions outstanding at July 15/12 (with changes from June 30/12).         Largest Short Positions       Security Ticker Total…


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