Goldcorp makes $238-million bid for Canplats
Vancouver – In just two years, Canplats Resources (CPQ-V) has followed red-stained road fill from a Mexican …
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Grupo to get Asarco back
Vancouver – It appears that Grupo Mexico (GMBXF-O, GMEXICOB-M) has dodged a US$10 billion bullet.
Rubicon to spend $60 million more on Red Lake
As soon as Rubicon Minerals (RMX-T, RBY-X) completes a $25 million phase-one drill program at its 100%-ow…
Chinese Fund On Junior Acquisition Spree
VANCOUVER — A new source of Chinese financing is proving to have a healthy appetite for juniors in its first six months of being. Allana Resources (AAA-V, ALLRF-O) has become the third public company…
Gold Wheaton Buys Second First Uranium Gold Stream
VANCOUVER — Having purchased a gold stream from First Uranium’s (FIU-T, FIU-J) Mine Waste Solutions (MWS) project, Gold Wheaton Gold( GLW-V, GLWGF-O) is adding another from its Ezulwini underground g…
Ivanhoe Australia Posts Merlin Resource
In the early 1900s high-grade, surface-enriched copper was mined from Mount Dore in northwestern Queensland, but production to 1961 reached just 5.9 tonnes of copper.Fast-forward nearly 50 years and in December 2008, Ivanhoe Australia (IVA-A)…
Look North For Critical Metals, U.S. Conference Hears
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Jack Lifton has an urgent warning for the United States when it comes to the supply of rare earth elements (REEs) — metals that are essential to everything from cell phones and LCD screens to military applications and…
PBX Scopes Copaquire’s Rhenium Potential
VANCOUVER– A scoping study for the Copaquire copper-molybdenum project in Chile shows the project supports a just-profitable mine as is, but suggests that owner International PBX Ventures (PBX-V, IPBXF-O) investigate how the new-found rhenium…
Rare Element Resources Launches Bear Lodge Scoping Study
With its share price recently hitting new highs, Rare Element Resources (RES-V, RRLMF-O) has started a scoping study on the Bull Hill Southwest deposit at its Bear Lodge rare earth element (REE) project in Wyoming.The scoping study is…
Axmin’s Troubles Land It In Toro Gold’s Arms
A private gold exploration company with an interest in sub-Saharan and equatorial Africa hopes to acquire Canadian junior Axmin (AXM-V, AXMIF-O), which has gold and other assets in the Central African…
Centerra Boosts Q3 Profits
Despite trouble at both its Boroo mine in Mongolia and its Kumtor mine in Kyrgyzstan, Centerra Gold (CG-T, CAGDF-O) managed to boost profits by 19.5% during the third quarter.
B2Gold Readies Orosi Production, Deals With Limon Strike
Production should start by the end of the month at B2Gold’s (BTO-T) Orosi gold mine in Nicaragua and that means there will be a major increase in gold production for the company next year.