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Russia’s Solway Group buys HudBay’s Fenix

Russia’s Solway Group, which owns a ferrno-nickel plant in the Ukraine, has bought HudBay Minerals’ (HBM-T, HBM-N) Fenix ferro-nickel project in Guatemala for US$140 million in cash at closing and an additional US$30 million if certain…


[Update] Woulfe advances Sangdong

With tungsten prices on the rise, Vancouver-based Woulfe Mining (WOF-V) is scrambling to restart the past-producing Sangdong tungsten-molybdenum mine in South Korea by late 2012.


What’s not to like about Hathor?

 Mike Gunning likes the fact that he can get from his desk in downtown Vancouver to within just a few kilometres of Hathor Exploration’s (HAT-T) flagship Roughrider uranium deposit in northern Saskatchewan by booking a commercial flight…


Hard Creek Nickel executive vice-president Neil Froc (left), with CEO Mark Jarvis at the Turnagain nickel project in Northern B.C. Photo by Matthew Allan

Metallurgical breakthrough lifts Hard Creek’s Turnagain

“There’s a lot of moose pasture up here,” Mark Jarvis, president and CEO of Hard Creek Nickel (HNC-T), jokes while looking out at the gently rolling hills littered with pines aboard a short flight to the company’s Turnagain nickel project in…


Glencore ups ante on PolyMet

Glencore International (GLEN-L) is betting that PolyMet Mining’s (POM-T, PLM-X) NorthMet polymetallic project in Minnesota has the stuff that profitable mines are made of.


Agnico-Eagle invests $70M in Rubicon

Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM-T, AEM-N) is making a $70-million strategic investment in Rubicon Minerals (RMX-T, RBY-X) to secure 9.2% of the company’s outstanding shares.


Brigus ramps up Black Fox

Brigus Gold (BRD-T) says gold production will increase, as it ramps up the Black Fox mine and its exploration efforts in Timmins, Ont.




China’s Hanlong looking at Bannerman

Chinese conglomerate Sichuan Hanlong Group is interested in Bannerman Resources’ (BAN-T, BMN-Z) Etango uranium project in Namibia, one of the largest undeveloped uranium resources in the world.




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