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TMX-LSE merger buzz

The markets have been abuzz since the jolting Feb. 8 announcement that the London Stock Exchange and the TMX Group – operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange – plan to merge in a deal that would create an exchange…


Roundup: Atac, Kaminak gear up for 2011

Vancouver – In a couple of packed sessions at the Mineral Exploration Roundup in late January, leading Yukon gold explorers Atac Resources (atc-v) and Kaminak Resources (kam-v) laid out their plans for stepped up exploration in 2011.




New hope from old regime in CAR?

With all of the unrest in Egypt, Tunisia and Côte d’Ivoire, Africa could use a story of peaceful politics more now than ever.


A drill crew at Fronteer Gold's Long Canyon gold project in Elko Cty., Nevada, pictured in 2008. Photo by Trish Saywell

Newmont bids for Fronteer

Newmont Mining (NEM-N) is the latest to join the wave of merger and acquisition activity that is washing over Canadian mining companies. 


Geomega shares roar after stand-out hole

All is it took was one hole to get the market in a tizzy over Geomega Resources’ (GMA-V) Montviel rare earths property in Quebec. But what a hole it was. The hole in question assayed 1.24% total rare earth oxides (TREO) over its entire 480…


Romarco’s feasibility study on Haile is positive

Just three years after acquiring the Haile deposit in South Carolina, Romarco Minerals (R-T) has completed a positive feasibility study that demonstrates the project would have one of the lowest operating costs and highest grades of any…



Vale closes furnace at Copper Cliff smelter

Vale (VALE-N) closed its No. 2 flash furnace in Sudbury early on Sunday morning Feb. 6 after molten metal leaked out between the tapping block and the furnace, the company has confirmed.



Entre Gold gets off to good start at Ann Mason

Entrée Gold’s (ETG-T, EGI-X) first diamond drill hole at its 100%-owned Ann Mason  porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit in western Nevada’s Yerington district returned 988 metres of copper mineralization in what Greg Crowe, the…


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