Vale Inco to restart Voisey’s Bay despite strike
Vale Inco Newfoundland and Labrador plans to train non-unionized supervisors and mill workers to work in the V…
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Khan signs MOU with state-owned uranium giant in Mongolia
Khan Resources (KRI-T) has come up with a clever plan to dodge a hostile takeover bid AND meet the requi…
Diversification pays off: New Gold’s US mine is trouble-free
New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-X) may be tied up in Mexico’s courts over an environmental impact statem…
Focus Sees New Promise In Old Peruvian Mine
SITE VISIT HUARAZ, PERU — The 600-km-long mineral belt that runs along the northern half of Peru’s coastline is home to a lot of metal. Some of the biggest and…
Toronto Stock Exchange -January 12-18
The TSX Composite Index moved lower for the Jan. 12-18 period as oil prices continued to slide on word from OPEC that supplies were strong for the winter period.
TSX Venture Exchange -January 12-18
It was an up-and-down week for the S&P TSX Venture Composite Index over the Jan. 12-18 trading period, with gains almost cancelling losses to leave the board down 3 points at 1606. Daily trading v…
U.S. Markets -January 12-18
Markets were closed in the U.S. on Jan. 18 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, giving investors a day off from a ho-hum week in equities trading. The major stock indices barely moved during the abbreviate…
Taseko Gets Provincial Nod For Prosperity
VANCOUVER — Taseko Mines (TKO-T) got a nice share price lift on news the provincial authorities gave the company’s Prosperity copper-gold project in central British Columbia an environmental stamp of…
Caerus Shares Crash
Vancouver-based Caerus Resource (CA-V) saw its share price nosedive after the company announced it would not be acquiring key assets in Colombia.
Barrick Sues Goldcorp, New Gold
Many thought the deal that Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) and New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-X) made with Xstrata (XSRAF-O, XTA-L) earlier this month to buy the advanced-stage El Morro project in northern Chile was cleve…
GFMS Says Gold Could Dip In 2010
After topping US$1,200 per oz. in late 2009, gold could be in for a rough ride during the first half of this year, according to gold consultancy group GFMS.
Rounding Up The Roundup
VANCOUVER — The global economic downturn pulled the value of British Columbia’s mining and mineral exploration down in 2009 from the lofty heights it reached in 2008, but the sector remains strong, w…