Canada


NovaGold’s CEO chats about progress, George Soros

Vancouver – NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-N) held its first live broadcast of the company’s annual general meeting of shareholders on May 25, with long-time chief executive officer Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse providing a pleasing roundup of the…


Claude hits high grade gold

A high-grade intercept lifted Claude Resources’ (CRJ-T, CGR-X) shares on a day when the yellow metal itself was climbing high. With gold reaching the US$1,525 per oz. level, news of Claude’s intercept lifted the company’s shares by 3% or…


North Country Gold ramps up exploration

Since graduating with a geology degree from the University of Alberta in 1988, John Williamson has founded ten junior resource and mining companies with assets across Canada, Western Australia, South America and Africa. He has helped raise over…



Quebec Premier Jean Charest unveiling the Plan Nord development program in Lvis, Que. Photo by Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife

$80B Plan Nord aims to attract more miners to Quebec

Up until about two months ago, management at Western Troy Capital Resources (WRY-V) thought the company might have to come up with as much as $70 million in a public-private cost-sharing partnership to build the Otish Mountain Road, which will…



People (May 23, 2011)

Alderon Resource – Matt Simpson resigned as COO but remains a director; Brian Penney appointed COO.



Kinross invests in Entourage’s Hemlo play

Just 2.5 km from the edge of Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) famed Hemlo gold mine property in northern Ontario, newly listed explorer Entourage Metals (EMT-V) hopes to achieve what countless others have tried but failed to accomplish: to…


Workers on an outcrop at Royal Nickel's Dumont nickel project, about 25 km northwest of Amos in Quebec's  Abitibi region. Photo by Royal Nickel

Royal Nickel ‘de-risks’ Dumont

Results of an optimization study and additional metallurgical tests have further de-risked Royal Nickel’s (RNX-T) Dumont nickel project in Quebec, president and CEO Tyler Mitchelson says.


The beneficiation plant at the Silver Yard, part of Labrador Iron Mines' Schefferville iron ore project in the Labrador Trough. Photo by Labrador Iron Mines

Forging deals in the Labrador Trough (May 23, 2011)

As the acquisition of Quebec-focused iron ore producer Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines (CLM-T) by resource giant Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N) finally comes to a close, investors can’t help but wonder which company in the area is next in…


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