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Energizer Resources' senior VP of operations Craig Scherba walks on a giant graphite ridge on the Seta graphite zone at the Green Giant vanadium-graphite project in Madagascar. Photo by Energizer Resources

Graphite: Hot commodity or hyped commodity?

Lithium and rare earth metals became the “it” commodities in the mining industry over the last few years, and now there is a growing consensus among industry watchers that graphite is set to take the stage in their wake.  


Drilling at Midas Gold's Golden Meadows gold project in Idaho. Photo by Midas Gold

‘Rediscoveries’ among featured projects at Roundup 2012

Modern technologies combined with robust metal prices helped generate many of the domestic and international exploration successes featured at Mineral Exploration Roundup hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME…


Senior geologist Al Workman and trainee geologist Waluyo Hadi on an epithermal gold project in Central Java, Indonesia in 1997. Photo by Watts, Griffis and McOuat

WGM: Around the world in 50 years

To survive half a century as an independent firm, Watts, Griffis and McOuat (WGM) has had to be the James Bond of the consulting world, willing to embrace extremes and extricate itself from some dicey situations: bush planes sinking under the…


Darryl Sittler scored 1,121 points in 1,096 career NHL games over 16 seasons in the NHL.

From jocks to rocks

Paul Reinhart was drafted twelfth overall by the Atlanta Flames in the 1979 NHL entry draft and went on to play 648 games in his professional hockey career, notching 133 goals and adding 426 assists for 559 points, making him one of the…



Drillers at Pretium Resources' Brucejack gold project in British Columbia. Photo by Pretium Resources

Pretium sketches larger mine at Brucejack

Pretium Resources’ (PVG-T, PVG-N) updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the Brucejack gold-silver project in northern B.C. foresees an even larger and more robust mine.


The lithium processing plant under construction at Canada Lithium's Quebec Lithium project near Val-d'Or, Quebec. Photo by Canada Lithium

Canada Lithium secures $92M vote of confidence

While investor confidence hasn’t necessarily returned to Canada Lithium (CLQ-T), the company has been given stamps of approval by Scotiabank and Caterpillar Financial Services in separate financing deals.


The landscape at Newmont Mining's Hope Bay gold project in Nunavut, 150 km north of the Arctic Circle. The Northern Miner archive photo

Newmont writes off Hope Bay

Newmont Mining (NMC-T, NEM-N)has written down the entire US$1.6-billion net book value of its Hope Bay gold project in remote Nunavut. The decision comes just weeks after the company announced it was placing the project on care and maintenance…


Victoria’s Eagle to land in two years

With a feasibility study now in hand for its Eagle gold deposit on the wholly owned Dublin Gulch property in central Yukon, Victoria Gold (VIT-V) has solidified a plan that could take it from junior developer to gold miner by the end of 2014.



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