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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Lake Shore Gold updates resource at Timmins West
Greater knowledge from mining and development work over the last year and a half, results from infill drilling and a reinterpretation of drill results have culminated in an updated resource estimate for Lake Shore Gold’s (LSG-T, LSG-X)…
Positive PEA for Queenston’s Upper Beaver
A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of Queenston Mining’s (QMI-T) flagship Upper Beaver project in northern Ontario envisions producing 120,000 oz. gold and 5.3 million lbs. copper a year at attractive cash costs using low-cost,…
Northshore results boost GTA, Balmoral
Shares of GTA Resources and Mining (GTA-V) surged $1.29, or 529% in a day to $1.54 on 7.8 million shares traded after the company released drill results from the Northshore gold property in Ontario’s Hemlo-Schrieber greenstone…
BHP and Rio double down on copper
BHP Billiton (BHP-N) and Rio Tinto (RIO-N) are feeling optimistic about copper. Six weeks into the first quarter of 2012, the two mining giants have unveiled plans to commit over US$4 billion to expand copper production at operations in Chile…
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Dividends and explanations get Kinross rolling
All it took was a bigger dividend and a bit of explaining for Kinross Gold (K-T, KGC-N) to gather some wind behind its back again.
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…
Federal gov’t to modernize Port of Sept-les
The Canadian government’s decision to spend up to $55 million building a deep-water, multi-user dock at the Port of Sept-Îles on Quebec’s North Shore that complies with the iron ore industry’s new loading…
Gold Standard snares 56 metres of 4.3 grams gold at Railroad
Vancouver — The Carlin Trend in northeast Nevada is known as elephant country thanks to seven major gold deposits, each exceeding 20 million tonnes. Gold Standard Ventures (GV-V) may have found its elephant.