Aurizon sees strong gains in August (August 31, 2010)
Vancouver – The latest drill results from the Casa Berardi gold mine have capped off a month of sharp sto…
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Venture holds course in last week of August
Vancouver – Two days in the red were curbed by three days in the green for the S&P-TSX Venture Composite I…
North Country hits more high-grade gold at Three Bluffs
Vancouver – North Country Gold (NCG-V) has followed up on some impressive July drill results with more high-gr…
Commentary: Are stock options still ideal for mining execs?
In the smoking ruins of the global financial crisis, renewed attention has been focused on executive incentive…
Darnley Bay Resources’ Arctic anomaly shows potential
Leon La Prairie says he has his old friend Hank Vuori to thank for discovering an anomaly in the Arctic that L…
Half of China’s foreign investment so far this year has been in mining
As speculation mounts about the possibility of alternative bids emerging for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewa…
Rosatom chief is looking for a success story with Uranium One
Sergey Kirienko, the director general of Russia’s Rosatom, said the state-run nuclear holding company had no p…
Venture makes slow and steady gains Aug. 16-20
The S&P/TSX Venture made small but steady gains during the Aug. 16 – 20 trading week, ending up 22.57 poin…
First resource out for Probe Mines’ Black Creek
Probe Mines (PRB-V) has received the first resource estimate for its 100%-owned Black Creek chromite deposit, …
Osisko keeps up the pace
SITE VISIT Malartic, Que. — Heading west out of Val d’Or, Que., on the way to Osisko Mining’s (OSK-T) Canadian Malartic gold project, a headframe comes into view on the…
The key players in Quebec’s lithium scene
SITE VISIT Nemiscau, Que. — Quebec has earned a reputation for being one of the world’s best mining jurisdictions. So it seems only fitting that lithium — widely touted as the metal of the future — would be found in great abundance in the…
Commentary: Changes ahead for mining balance sheets
Starting in 2011, Canadian public companies will be migrating from using Canada’s own generally accepted acc…