Potash Corp. rejects BHP’s buyout bid
BHP Billiton’s (BHP-N) unsolicited buyout offer for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (POT-T, POT-N) for $130…
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Gold Canyon pulls long gold intercepts from Springpole
Vancouver – The first summer drill results at Gold Canyon Resources’ (GCU-V) Springpole project have returned …
Chinese company goes ahead with Nunavik nickel mine
Construction of the Nunavik nickel project is back on track with a start up goal of early 2012 now that Jien C…
Venture edges down in Aug 9-13 trading week
Vancouver – The S&P/TSX Venture composite index fell slightly on the week, ending down 8.44 points to clos…
Consolidated Thompson reaches key milestones in Quebec
In late July Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines (CLM-T) shipped the first iron ore concentrate to its Chinese st…
US markets down week of Aug. 9-13
Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the U.S. economy is going to get worse before it gets better, up from 53%…
TSX mining stocks fall
First Bauxite eyes production in Guyana
VANCOUVER — First Bauxite (FBX-V) has reached a key milestone in its path to becoming a producer with the release of a positive feasibility study for its Bonasika bauxite project in Guyana that comes…
Corex cuts gold at Santana (August 16, 2010)
Vancouver — Corex Gold (CGE-V) is pulling good widths of gold-bearing oxide rock from the ground at its Santana project in Mexico, as two drills work to expand and link up several gold zones at the e…
Another smooth deal for Kinross
While plenty of Canadians took Aug. 2 as a holiday, that wasn’t the case for many of the folks at the head offices of Kinross Gold and Red Back Mining in Toronto and Vancouver, who were busy putting t…
Copper mine output up 19% over past decade: ICSG
The Lisbon-based International Copper Study Group (ICSG) has released its 2010 Statistical Yearbook covering world copper supply and demand data for the period 2000-2009. The following is an edited ve…
TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE -August 3-6
The S&P/TSX Venture composite index made modest gains over the Civic Holidayshortened Aug. 3-6 period to close up 38.12 points at 1,465.48. Daily trading volumes were average at 100 million.