Vale gives $125K to Laurentian University
Vale (VALE-N) is donating $125,000 to Laurentian University’s Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health (CROSH) in Sudbury, Ont. — home to Vale’s powerhouse nickel assets.
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Dolly Varden hopes to find the next Eskay Creek
The management team at Vancouver-based Dolly Varden Silver (DV-V) had been keeping its eye on an intriguing piece of mining history in northwestern B.C.’s Stewart complex for quite some time. Both chairman John King Burns and…
Richmont delivers double whammy in Quebec
Richmont Mines (RIC-T, RIC-X) has found itself in a tough spot, with shares sinking to a new 52-week low after taking the Francoeur gold mine offline and scrapping its exploration efforts on the Wasamac gold property, both near…
Bullfrog a prince for Corvus
Vancouver-based junior Corvus Gold (KOR-T) has released an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on its wholly owned North Bullfrog low-grade gold project in southern Nevada that models a heap-leach mine averaging 74,800 oz. gold…
Western Potash up on positive Milestone feasibility
Western Potash shares (WPX-T) gained nearly 7% after the company published a positive feasibility study showing its proposed Milestone potash solution mine near Regina, Sask., could produce 2.8 million tonnes of potassium chloride (KCl) a…
Brixton cuts high grades at Oban in 2012
VANCOUVER — Vancouver-based explorer Brixton Metals (BBB-V) cannot help but be excited by the silver-equivalent grades it has been cutting at its Thorn pollymetallic project 130km southwest of Atlin in northwestern British Columbia….
Flow-through donations may be safety net for junior explorers
It’s no secret that tight equity markets are hurting junior mining and other resource exploration firms in Canada as they struggle to find the vein of capital to keep their operations running and their valuations from leeching away.
TSX Venture continues decline, Dec. 3-7
VANCOUVER — The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index continued to lose ground during the Dec. 3-7 trading sessions, dropping 2.8% or 34.8 points before closing the week at 1,186.06 points. Uncertainty over U.S. economic policy negotiations…
Western Potash up on positive Milestone feasibility
Western Potash (WPX-T) gained nearly 7% after publishing a positive feasibility study that showed the proposed Milestone potash solution mine near Regina, Sask., could produce 2.8 million tonnes of potassium chloride (KCl) a year for 40…
Dolly Varden hopes to find the next Eskay Creek
VANCOUVER — The management team at Vancouver-based Dolly Varden Silver (DV-V) had been keeping its eye on an intriguing piece of mining history in northwestern British Columbia’s Stewart complex for quite some time. Both Chairman…
Interview with Quest CEO Peter Cashin
Quest Rare Minerals (QRM-T, QRM-X) is advancing its Strange Lake rare earth element deposit in northern Quebec and expects to deliver a prefeasibility study on the project by year-end or early January, followed by a feasibility study in…
BC mining sits under cloud of 2013 election
Denial and defiance came first. It seemed inconceivable for miners that a New Democratic Party government could take the reins following a B.C. election in May 2013. But as political tides swell in favour of NDP leader Adrian Dix — and a…