Jo shows more zinc and silver for Sabina (August 25, 2008)
Vancouver – While a frustrating delay continues to hang over its Hackett River prefeasibility study, Sabina Silver …
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Reserves keep growing at Pallancata
Vancouver – For the second time in five months, International Minerals (IMZ-T, IMZLF-O) and Hochschild Mining (HCHD…
Australia allows Chinalco a 15% Rio Tinto stake
The Australian government has approved a maximum limit of 14.99% holding in the shares of mining giant Rio Tinto PL…
Change at the top for Verena
The promising exploration growth Verena Minerals (VML-T) has shown recently in Brazil will have to be driven by a n…
Baffin Island sparkles for Peregrine Diamonds
It’s not every day that you find diamonds outcropping at surface in the Arctic and some geologists will go a lifeti…
Short Position Report (August 25, 2008)
TSX Short Positions Short positions outs…
Yankee Hat forms tungsten JV with Japanese group (August 25, 2008)
Restrictions on tungsten exports from China have caused resource-poor Japan to look to the Yukon and Northwest Territories as a new source for the rare metal.
Harmony, Newcrest, team up in PNG at Hidden Valley
Two of the biggest gold miners not listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange are combining forces in Papua New Guinea (PNG) with the hopes of bringing a large-scale gold and silver mine into production by …
Tournigan grows Kuriskova deposit
VANCOUVER — After a modelling error forced Tournigan Energy (TVC-V, TVCFF-O) to reduce the resources at its Kuriskova uranium deposit in eastern Slovakia last year, the newly renamed company has put …
Vedanta investing US$8.8B in base metal expansion
Having received the go-ahead from India’s Supreme Court, Vedanta Resources (VED-L), an India-focused resource giant, is proceeding with a bauxite project in Lanjigarh, in the state of Orissa. An alumi…
San Gold on cusp of resource update (August 25, 2008)
VANCOUVER–Exploration drilling in and around San Gold’s (SGR-V, SGRCF-O) operating Rice Lake mine, 230 km northeast of Winnipeg, Man., continues to pay off with high-grade gold. San Gold CEO Dale Gin…
For Uranium One, the Honeymoon’s over (August 25, 2008)
VANCOUVER — Uranium One’s (UUU-T, SXRZF-O) decision to sell some of its earlier-stage uranium properties this spring has hit it with a US$105-million impairment charge in its second quarter for a US$…