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Ocean Park Ventures' Trapper gold project near Atlin, B.C. Photo by Ocean Park Ventures

Potash One dealmaker Matysek turns to BC gold

Fresh from the $434-million sale of his potash explorer Potash One to German fertilizer giant K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Vancouver’s Paul Matysek is turning his attention to a small, Americas-focused gold explorer named Ocean Park Ventures…


Red Cross lauds Canadian miners for Haiti help

The Canadian Red Cross has commemorated members of the mining industry for raising $900,000 following the devastating earthquake that rattled Haiti in January 2010, leaving 230,000 dead, 1.3 million homeless and 3 million affected.  


4M oz. gold at Probe’s Borden Lake

Probe Mines (PRB-V) jumped 17.3%, or 26¢, to $1.76 per share on news its Borden Lake gold project situated about 110 km east of Lake Superior near Chapleau, Ont., contains 4 million oz. gold and nearly 6 million oz. silver.




Cadillac boosts Thierry resource

Cadillac Ventures (CDC-V) has increased the measured and indicated resources by 33% and inferred resources by 75% at its100%-owned Thierry mine project in northwestern Ontario based on drilling completed in 2010 and 2011.


Southern Pacific Resource revises McKay cost estimate

If everything goes according to plan, Southern Pacific Resource (STP-T) will finish construction of its McKay thermal project in Alberta in the second quarter of next year with the first steam to follow and production targeted to get underway…


Agnico’s two pearls in Nunavut

Baker Lake, Nunavut – It’s been a tough and ambitious foray in Canada’s Arctic for Agnico-Eagle Mines (aem-t, aem-n), to say the least, but one that holds much promise.



Enbridge touts pipeline demand as review continues

Vancouver – Building a nearly 1,200-km-long pipeline is inevitably challenging, but putting one through two provinces, the territory of dozens of first nations and long tracks of wilderness, only to emerge in a highly contentious port location…


Norway’s Statoil defends its turf in Alberta’s oilsands

Norway’s Statoil ASA (STO-N, STL-O) has long been considered one of the world’s leading offshore operators but lately it has turned its attention to Canada’s oilsands. The Company landed in Alberta in a big way back in 2007 via its $2 billion…


Magino holds promise for Prodigy Gold

Results from infill and resource expansion drilling at Prodigy Gold’s (PDG-V) Magino gold project in Ontario sent the junior’s shares up 10.34% to close at 64¢ yesterday. At presstime in Toronto Prodigy was trading at 59¢ per share…


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