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Courageous Lake continues to grow for Seabridge Gold

Drilling last year to upgrade inferred resources to higher categories at Seabridge Gold’s (SEA-T) Courageous Lake deposit northeast of Yellowknife, has increased measured and indicated resources, improved the average grade, and boosted the size…



First Quantum to expand Kansanshi in Zambia

Already one of the largest copper-producing companies in the world, First Quantum Minerals’ (FM-T, FQM-L) plans 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,…


Atac, Kaminak gear up for 2011 exploration in Yukon

Vancouver – In a couple of packed sessions at the Mineral Exploration Roundup in Vancouver, leading Yukon gold explorers Atac Resources (ATC-V) and Kaminak Resources (KAM-V) laid out their plans for stepped up exploration in 2011.



Shanta Gold makes headway in Tanzania (January 25, 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 Tanzania…




Former bidding rivals team up to chase Baffinland

In a new twist to the takeover battle for Baffinland Iron Mines (bim-t), former rivals Nunavut Iron Ore and ArcelorMittal (mt-n) are teaming up in a joint bid.”It’s been an interesting week,” Nunavut Iron chairman Bruce Walters remarks with…


Cliffs to buy Cons. Thompson

If Cliffs Natural Resources (clf-n) is successful in its bid for Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines (clm-t) and its Bloom Lake mine on the south end of the Labrador Trough, it will in one stroke acquire a world-class orebody containing high-grade…


Mirasol delivers spectacular silver hits

Results for the remaining 21 holes completed during a first pass of drilling on the Julia vein target confirm Mirasol Resources (mrz-v) has made a significant high-grade silver discovery at its wholly owned Virginia project in Argentina’s Santa…


Inmet, Lundin to merge

The proposed merger of Inmet Mining (imn-t, iemf-o) and Lundin Mining (lun-t), which both companies describe as a “merger of equals,” would create a large base-metal producer in Canada that would replace the likes of those that Canada has lost…


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