Mount Kellett Capital Management–the largest shareholder in Baja Mining (BAJ-T) with 19.9% of its shares–is criticizing the Vancouver-based junior for what it describes as a “prevailing culture of nepotism and preference at the company.” Baja…
Vancouver – Victoria Gold (VIT-V) has hit several silver intercepts in its first drill program on the Rex-Peso target near its flagship Eagle Gold deposit in the Yukon.
Vancouver – Convinced its portfolio of projects weren’t being adequately appreciated in the market, Yukon-focused Western Copper last year decided to spin out everything but its flagship Casino project into two new companies.
Pacific North West Capital (PFN-T) saw it shares surge 24% as it released another nine assays from its River Valley primary platinum group metals (PGM) deposit near Sudbury, Ont.
The New Year got off to a strong start for Golden Predator (GPD-T) in the Yukon with drill results from the Sleeman zone at its flagship Brewery Creek deposit and a new gold discovery at Cache Creek.
Canada is on the edge of an historic choice: to diversify our energy markets away from our traditional trading partner in the United States or to continue with the status quo.
Before Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) began commercial production at its expanded Red Lake gold mine on Jan. 1, 2001, the company was a 100,000-oz.-a-year mid-tier gold producer struggling to become a top senior gold miner. But by the end of the year,…
Vancouver – The first trading period of 2012 saw the S&P TSX Venture Composite Index climb 41.07 points between January 3 and 6 to end at 1,525.73 points. Volume was noticeably down at an average of 75 million shares traded daily.
Teck Resources (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) is raising its exposure to Alberta’s oil sands with plans to purchase SilverBirch Energy (SBE-V) in a cash and stock deal worth about $435 million. The acquisition will give Teck the rest of the Frontier oil…
Alcoa – Mark Davies appointed president of global business services.
Marketable coal reserves at Coalspur Mines’ (CPT-T) flagship Vista project in Alberta have risen 20% to 313 million tonnes from the 260 million tonnes estimated in the prefeasibility study. The 313 million tonnes will come from a recoverable…
When Scott McLean packed up and left Xstrata (XTA-L) after a long and fruitful career with Falconbridge, he knew exactly what he wanted to do with his time: find another world-class mine.
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