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Roundup: We need more discoveries

This year’s Mineral Exploration Roundup attracted 7,000 delegates from around the world, a new record for the annual conference hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC). But in keeping with the theme,…


Worldwide nonferrous exploration budgets by region, 2010 (more than 2,200 companies' budgets, totaling US$11.5 billion). (Note: The annual budget totals for Canada, Australia, and the United States are typically much larger than those of most other countries; as a result, MEG treats these countries as individual regions in its CES studies.) Photo by Metals Economics Group

Canada keeps no. 2 spot for 2010 exploration

The following was released by the Metals Economics Group (MEG), based on its Corporate Exploration Strategies study which examines global exploration budgets. For more information visit: www.metalseconomics.com.



Visitors enter the mine workings at Trelawney Mining and Exploration's Chester gold project in August. Photo by Salma Tarikh

More long intercepts for Trelawney (February 07, 2011)

Trelawney Mining and Exploration (TRR-V) has raised expectations in a short period of time. So much so that the latest drill results, that would be the envy of many junior gold explorers, failed to impact the company’s stock value.


Roundup: Commodities outlook

The final technical session at the Mineral Exploration Roundup hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) looked at the potential of thermal coal, uranium, vanadium, molybdenum, copper and, of course, gold.


Drillers take a break at the Ashram rare-earth zone at Commerce Resources' Eldor project in northern Quebec. Photo by Commerce Resources

Commerce gets more rare-earth assays

Assays for the final five holes from Commerce Resources’ (cce-v, cmrzf-o) 2010 drill program at its Ashram rare-earth zone on its Eldor project in northern Quebec bring the junior one step closer to completing a National Instrument 43-101…



Cliffs says high electricity prices in Ontario are a challenge

Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N) warned in a conference call today that high electricity rates in Ontario are forcing it to widen its search for a location to build a proposed ferrochrome production facility that will utilize a closed electric…


Copper Canyon board rejects NovaGold bid

Vancouver – Copper Canyon Resources’ (CPY-V) board of directors has unanimously rejected as inadequate a hostile takeover bid launched by joint venture partner NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-X).


Demand outpaces discoveries, Roundup delegates told

VANCOUVER – This year’s Mineral Exploration Roundup attracted 7,000 delegates from around the world, a new record for the annual conference hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC). But in keeping with the…



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