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Corvus shares surge 50% on Nevada gold
Corvus Gold (KOR-T) has started the year with a bang. Positive assay results from its North Bullfrog gold-silver project outside of Beatty, Nev., combined with a sunny outlook for gold juniors, helped push the company’s share up 50% since…
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MAX hopes to find ‘silver lining’ in Majuba Hill
MAX Resource (MXR-V) continues to search for a copper-silver porphyry system at its Majuba Hill property in Pershing County, Nev. Assays were released in early February from a second quarter 2011 drill campaign at the property.
Shear secures Jericho water licence
Shear Diamonds (SRM-V) has earned a final approval on a water licence renewal for its Jericho diamond project in Nunavut.
NovaDx looks to specialty coal
NovaDx Ventures (NDX-V), once a pharmaceutical shell turned merchant bank, has found itself on more solid footing as a specialty coal company.
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Editorial: Invasion of the robominers!
In a sign of the times that would make any union leader do a double take, Rio Tinto has announced that it and a minority partner will spend US$518 million on robotrains to haul its iron ore in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
Commentary: Mining execs’ pay jumps as industry rebounds
This is one of those “good problems” you hear about from time to time in business. After weathering the punishing collapse in demand for commodities that began in 2008 and dragged on for more than two years, the mining industry has…