Investors snapped to attention when drilling at the Tiger Zone in the middle of Atac Resources’ (ATC-V) Rau gold property in the Yukon started yielding intercepts of 38.8 metres of 17.1 grams gold per tonne from 33 metres depth,…
Four months after he was hired as managing director and chief executive of Coalspur Mines (cpt-t, cpl-a) Gene Wusaty was still working out of his home and a local coffee shop in Calgary and putting business expenses on his personal credit card.
Newly listed NSGold (nsx-v) is determined to make a name for itself in the historic gold camps of Nova Scotia.The junior recently wrapped up a $750,000-exploration drilling campaign on the Mooseland gold project, 110 km by paved highway…
Vancouver – Rio Tinto (RIO-N, RIO-L) wants more coal: the major has offered A$3.9 billion for Riversdale Mining (RIV-A), an Australian coal company with one mine in operation, one in construction, and one primed for development.
More significant results from the drill at the Ogden gold project in Timmins, Ont., had Metals Creek Resources (mek-v) climbing higher. The results came out of the company’s ongoing 2,500-metre drill program and included a highlight intercept…
Loncor Resources (ln-v) is $6.8 million richer after Newmont Mining (nmc-t, nem-n) exercised some 2 million in-the-money warrants worth $2.9 million and took down a non-brokered $3.9-million private placement.Newmont Mining boosted its…
In this Technical Analysis Report we re-visit the Commitments of Traders (COT) report, supplied by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to see if any metals appear ready to make a significant move.
After starting nickel production last April at the Tim King open-pit mine, part of Western Areas’ (wsa-t, wsa-a) Spotted Quoll deposit about 400 km east of Perth, the company has decided to mine underground, too. The nickel sulphide explorer…
At the opening bell on Dec. 30, 2010, Shear Minerals began trading on a consolidated basis under the new name of Shear Diamonds (srm-v).At the company’s recent annual meeting, shareholders and the board of directors approved a 10-to-1 rollback…
Revised offers in the dwindling hours of 2010 from both Nunavut Iron Ore Acquisition and global steel giant ArcelorMittal (mt-n) for junior Baffinland Iron Mines (bim-t) have grabbed the headlines in the first week of 2011. Nunavut Iron Ore,…
Despite all the geopolitical and economic jitters around the world, 2010 proved to be a sweet year for commodities investors.
Oil and gas deals in the exploration and production (E&P) sector reached US$73 billion in the last quarter of 2010 with deals for the year totaling US$238 billion, compared with US$151 billion in 2009. The total deal value in Q4 2010 is…
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