Editorial: Code Red For Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto’s debt pangs grew acute during the week ended Dec. 13, the fiftieth trading week of 2008. They were set off this time around by the late November collapse of BHP Billiton’s drawn-out hostile…
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Dogpaw Fetches Good Grades For Houston Lake
Seventy-six per cent of the holes Houston Lake Mining (HLM-V, HLKMF-o) has drilled on its Dogpaw Lake property, near Kenora, Ont., have intersected values of 3 grams gold per tonne or higher.
Breakwater sheds gold royalties amidst low zinc prices
Breakwater Resources (BWR-T) continues to shed assets in an effort to weather the current lows in the base metals m…
Feasibility’s in; Marathon PGM seeks financing
Now that Marathon PGM (MAR-T) has completed a feasibility study for its platinum group metal-copper project, the co…
Aggregates and Obama’s plan: JP Morgan says no boon too soon
Vancouver – President-elect Barack Obama’s talk of massive infrastructure spending to ward off recession has …
AME BC anounces annual award winners
Vancouver – The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) has named its swath of award winners …
West Timmins and Lake Shore find new high grade
Vancouver – If location is king, West Timmins Mining (WTM-T) and Lake Shore Gold (LSG-T) have hit gold: the joint-v…
Polaris lines up $25M financing
Vancouver – Quarry operator Polaris Minerals (PLS-T) will eliminate a $20 million bridge loan and add about $…
Strateco leads the uranium pack in Quebec (Part II)
Strateco Resources (RSC-T) has passed the first test for bringing its Matoush uranium project into produc…
Strateco leads the uranium pack in Quebec (part I)
CHIBOUGAMAU, QUE. — The Matoush uranium deposit is like nothing anyone’s ever seen before.
Taseko grows Gibraltar reserves
Vancouver – On the heels of a second expansion at the Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine in central British Columbia,…
HudBay-Lundin Merger Draws Fire
Vancouver — What was supposed to be a friendly merger between HudBay Minerals (HBM-T, HBMFF-O) and Lundin Mining (LUN-T, LMC-N) is turning into a nasty battle, as groups of HudBay shareholders demand…