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Drillers take a break at the Ashram rare-earth zone at Commerce Resources' Eldor project in northern Quebec. Photo by Commerce Resources

Commerce gets more rare-earth assays

Assays for the final five holes from Commerce Resources’ (cce-v, cmrzf-o) 2010 drill program at its Ashram rare-earth zone on its Eldor project in northern Quebec bring the junior one step closer to completing a National Instrument 43-101…


Editorial: Coal gets respect

As if anyone needed more confirmation that coal has come back in a big way, the fourth week of January served up the biggest merger in U.S. coal mining history.


Worldwide nonferrous exploration budgets by region, 2010 (more than 2,200 companies' budgets, totaling US$11.5 billion). (Note: The annual budget totals for Canada, Australia, and the United States are typically much larger than those of most other countries; as a result, MEG treats these countries as individual regions in its CES studies.) Photo by Metals Economics Group

Canada keeps no. 2 spot for 2010 exploration

The following was released by the Metals Economics Group (MEG), based on its Corporate Exploration Strategies study which examines global exploration budgets. For more information visit: www.metalseconomics.com.




Visitors enter the mine workings at Trelawney Mining and Exploration's Chester gold project in August. Photo by Salma Tarikh

More long intercepts for Trelawney (February 07, 2011)

Trelawney Mining and Exploration (TRR-V) has raised expectations in a short period of time. So much so that the latest drill results, that would be the envy of many junior gold explorers, failed to impact the company’s stock value.


Bjorkdal grows 50%

The overall resource at Gold-Ore Resources’ (GOZ-T) Bjorkdal gold mine in Sweden has grown by more than 50% from the previous estimate reported last March.


Staff in the core shed at Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum's Kamoa copper project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo by Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum

African Copperbelt: still risky after all these years

The African Copperbelt running through Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hosts some of the world’s richest copper and copper-cobalt deposits, and has attracted dozens of junior companies over the years. But like moths to a…


Drillers at Sunridge Gold's Asmara copper-gold-zinc project in Eritrea. Photo by Sunridge Gold

Sunridge gets results

Sunridge Gold (SGC-T) has released assays from the first four of 35 holes drilled to define the Debarwa copper-gold-zinc VMS (volcanogenic massive sulphide) deposit at its Asmara project in Eritrea. 


Shanta Gold makes headway in Tanzania (February 07, 2011)

Junior Shanta Gold (SHG-L) wants to make the leap from explorer to gold producer within two years. On Jan. 25, Shanta said it is on track to complete a detailed feasibility study by the end of June on its Singida gold project in central…



A dump truck at First Quantum Minerals' Kansanshi copper-gold mine in Zambia, 10 km north of the town of Solwezi. Photo by First Quantum Minerals

First Quantum to expand Kansanshi

Already one of the largest copper-producing companies, First Quantum Minerals’ (FM-T, FQM-L) plan to expand production capacity in Zambia at its Kansanshi copper-gold mine by 60% to about 400,000 tonnes of copper per year by 2015 and advance…


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