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PwC: Exploration spending, costs soar

Exploration spending in the 12 months leading to June 30 increased 115% year-on-year, while total production costs have more than quintupled since 2006, rising more than 23% between 2010 and 2011, consulting firm PwC concludes in its annual…


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Alcoa – Kelly Pasterick appointed director of investor relations, succeeding Roy Harvey, who was appointed CFO of Global Primary Products; William Oplinger appointed COO of Global Primary Products.



Bidgood results out ahead of good bid

Shortly before receiving a takeover offer from Osisko Mining (OSK-T), Queenston Mining (QMI-T) released some positive drill results from its Bidgood gold project in Kirkland Lake, Ontario.



Cameco sweetens hostile Hathor bid

Cameco (CCO-T, CCJ-N) has raised its all-cash hostile offer for Hathor Exploration (HAT-T) by 20%, from $3.75 per share to $4.50 per share, trumping Rio Tinto’s (RIO-N, RIO-L, RIO-A) friendly $4.15 per share, all-cash bid.




D'Arianne Resources' Lac  Paul phosphate-titanium project in southeastern Quebec. Photo by D'Arianne Resources

Arianne’s Lac Paul to be ‘next generation’ mine

A prefeasibility study for D’Arianne Resources’ (DAN-V) Lac à Paul phosphate-titanium project in southeastern Quebec has placed the project “among the most attractive of the next generation of phosphate rock mines,” according to Bernard…


Lake Shore flaunts 6.4M oz. resource

By early next year Lake Shore Gold (lsg-t, lsg-x) was aiming to boast a gold resource of 6-million to 8-million ounces. A goal it recently achieved with initial resources from its Thunder Creek and Fenn-Gib projects, bringing…


Fission’s Roughrider area play has shareholders glowing green

Vancouver – With the power play for Hathor Exploration’s (HAT-T) promising Roughrider uranium deposit now in its fourth (but perhaps not final) act, Saskatchewan’s Athabasca basin is taking centre stage in the battle for the world’s next best…


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