Western Potash (WPX-T) has put a spotlight on its Milestone potash project in Saskatchewan with a positive prefeasibility study (PFS) estimating annual production at 2.8 million tonnes for at least 40 years. This has some analysts speculating…
Anglo American’s (AAL-L) agreement to pay $5.1 billion in cash for the Oppenheimer family’s 40% stake in De Beers will have a profound impact on the diamond industry, executives and analysts say.
The former Red Back Mining team led by Richard Clark has returned to advance Atacama Minerals (AAM-V), using the same strategies they used to build Red Back from a junior with a $50-million market cap into a West African gold producer…
Raglan at Quebec’s northern limit in Nunavik is one of the world’s highest grading nickel mines. In August, Xstrata Nickel, one of Xstrata’s (XTA-L) global business units, approved a US$530-million extension project at that will develop the…
When you’re 685 km northeast of Yellowknife, or 160 km above the Arctic Circle, just about everything costs more than it does down south.
Mining companies investing for the first time in Canada’s Far North may find the experience unlike any other. This holds true not only for foreign corporations, but also for companies familiar with mining in Southern Canada.
Many people often think of me as a silver-focused individual,” Pretium Resources (PVG-T) president and CEO Robert Quartermain told a crowd of around 150 in his opening remarks at a recent Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia…
Since Canadian Zinc (CZN-T) bought 100% of the Prairie Creek property in the 1990s, the company has invested more than $45 million and quadrupled the mineral resource. It has also advanced the zinc-silver-lead mine in the Northwest Territories…
With all the excitement about new discoveries in the Yukon, it’s easy to forget about the established deposits that could become mines in the near term.
Infill drilling this year at Seabridge Gold’s (SEA-T) Courageous Lake property in Canada’s Northwest Territories is helping upgrade inferred resources to higher categories and increasing the size and grade of the deposit, the company says,…
Few companies embody the modern Yukon gold rush more than Golden Predator (GPD-T).
Initial drill results from Abzu Gold’s (ABS-V, ABZUF-O) Nangodi Project in Ghana show that the Bole-Nangodi Gold belt in the north of the country still has plenty of gold to give.
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