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.
The board at HudBay Minerals (HBM-T, HBM-N) has agreed to develop the high-grade, near-surface Reed copper deposit in Manitoba into a mine. Production of copper in concentrate is expected to average 17,000 tonnes per year over the five-year…
Please allow me to begin with a little trivia. When I started in this business the Prime Minister of Canada was Louis St. Laurent. Anybody out there remember him? Suffice it to say, most 70- to 80-year-olds are neither nimble nor quick, and I…
The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) has announced the 2011 recipients of its annual awards. The AME BC recognizes individuals or teams for significant contributions to the mineral exploration industry in B.C.,…
Adriana Resources’ (ADI-V) shares are back up after dropping 15% on Dec. 19 as the company reported that it’s partnering with Wisco International Resources to develop the Lac Otelnuk and December Lake iron ore properties in Nunavik, Que….
When Adrian Fleming, co-founder of the wildly successful Underworld Resources, listened to a presentation at his Vancouver office in November last year from Prosperity Goldfields’ (PPG-V) chief geologist Quinton Hennigh about a prospect in…
Trevali Mining (tv-t) has kicked off the New Year by transitioning from a development-stage company to a producer by starting up the Halfmile polymetallic massive sulphide project near Bathurst, N.B.
Vancouver – Brixton Metals (BBB-V) has pulled a whopper of an intercept from the Thorn project in northwest British Columbia, hitting 95 metres grading 904 grams per tonne silver equivalent from near surface.
Burwash Landing, Yukon – Fifteen km off the paved Alaska Highway in southwestern Yukon, the Wellgreen nickel-copper-PGM project sits largely as it has since 1973, when Hudson-Yukon Mining abandoned underground mining there after one year of…
The board of Huckleberry Mines, in which Imperial Metals (III-T) holds a 50% stake and a consortium of Asian companies (Materials Corp., Marubeni Corp., Dowa Mining Co. and Furukawa Co.) owns the remainder, has approved a plan to extend the…
The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index managed a modest year-end rally of 77.27 points over the holiday-spanning December 21-30 trading period, bringing the index to a year-end close of 1,484.66 points. In comparison, at the end of 2010 the…
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