After hosting two days of meetings with government policy advisors, experts and consultants about China’s medium- to long-term demand for commodities, the Nomura Group concludes the country’s industrial demand is “moving to…
EXCHANGE RATES CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date May 28 May 25 May 24 May 23 May 22 US$ in C 1.0241 1.0285 1.0275 1.0275 1.0191 …
Raging forest fires attributed to irresponsible campers near the towns of Kirkland Lake and Timmins in northeastern Ontario forced residents from their homes and impacted four regional gold operations. Fire crews and the Ministry of Natural…
Junior explorer Clifton Star Resources (CFO-V) has seen its extensive resource drilling efforts pay off, with the company delineating a multi-million ounce, open-pit indicated gold resource at its Duparquet project in northwestern…
GoldQuest Mining (GQC-V) shares have taken flight after the company revealed a monster gold intercept from its 15-hole program at the Las Tres Palmas project in the northest Dominican Republic, around 40 km east-southeast from the border with…
Xstrata’s (XTA-L) coal division is wasting little time in advancing its recently secured coal fields in B.C.’s Peace River region, as it and 25% joint-venture partner JX Nippon Oil and Energy launch into a $35-million prefeasibility…
Labour relations in Canada took a step backwards in late May, as federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt tabled back-to-work legislation to end a walkout by 4,800 Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive engineers and conductors that began on May 23 as a…
GE pursues two underground equipment makers
Abzu Gold — Allan Serwa resigned as CEO; Tim McCutcheon appointed CEO and a director.Alcoa — Max Laun appointed VP and general counsel; Donna Dabney top retire Aug. 1 as VP and corporate secretary; Audrey Strauss appointed chief…
The Fukushima nuclear disaster may have winded the nuclear power and uranium markets, but the furious pace of consolidation in the uranium mining sector is leaving investors betting on the next takeover target.So far this year, no less than…
Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) is shifting gears as it adjusts to Rio Tinto (RIO-N) having acquired a majority ownership stake in the company, and first production approaches at its Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold-silver mine in Mongolia.Ivanhoe released…
Hana Mining’s (HMG-V) share price dropped 68% after the company released a long-awaited preliminary economoc assessment (PEA) on the Banana zone and zone 5 at its 70%-owned Ghanzi copper-silver project in northeastern Botswana.The news…
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