Taking stock of Quebec’s new mining taxes
The Quebec Finance Minister Raymond Bachand’s budget on March 30, 2010, significantly revamped the Quebec mining duty regime with a view to mitigating the provincial deficit.
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Tax news wallops Aussie miners
Australia arguably slipped from being a pro-mining country to an anti-mining one in early May, as the left-leaning federal government there unveiled sweeping plans to change the island nation into one…
Volta Resources pulls golden core from Kiaka
VANCOUVER — A drill program aimed at defining a maiden resource at the Kiaka project in Burkina Faso continues to produce near-surface lengths of gold mineralization for Volta Resources (VTR-T).
Timmins Gold starts up San Francisco mine
Timmins Gold (TMM-V) has started commercial production at the San Francisco gold mine, a past-producing open-pit heap-leach operation in the Arizona-Sonora Desert in the northern portion of the Mexica…
Hana arranges $21-M financing
A little more than a week after announcing it had significantly increased its resource at the Ghanzi copper-silver project in northwestern Botswana, Hana Mining (HMG-V) is raising $21 million in a pri…
Technical Analysis Report: platinum
Along with the nascent global economic recovery there has been renewed interest in platinum, largely due to the metal’s crucial role in auto manufacturing.
Former Underworld directors take on Greenland
VANCOUVER — Roughly 2.7 billion years ago, Greenland broke away from Eastern Canada and moved north, taking a chunk of the Archean greenstone belt that has produced 60% of Canada’s gold with it. Now …
Imperial grows Red Chris significantly (May 10, 2010)
VANCOUVER — With just 22 drill holes, Imperial Metals (III-T) has dramatically increased the contained metal count at its Red Chris project in northwest British Columbia, adding 2.7 billion lbs. copp…
New tax raises miners’ ire in Australia (May 10, 2010)
Australia’s reputation as a mining-friendly country with a stable tax regime was thrown into doubt after the national government announced plans to create a new tax that specifically targets miners in…
TNM editor talks Aussie taxes on BNN
The Northern Miner editor John Cumming and Terence Ortslan, managing director of TSO and Associates, joined ho…
Belvedere Resources drills Kopsa gold project in Finland
Attractive drill results from the Kopsa gold project in Finland sent the shares of Belvedere Resources (…
Ventana settles La Bodega dispute (May 07, 2010)
Vancouver – Ventana Gold (VEN-T) announced the settlement of an ownership dispute at its La Bodega gold p…