Spring Cleaning Polar Star’s Boardroom
Leading a proxy battle is no easy task, says Polar Star Mining (PSR-V, POSRF-O) president and CEO Douglas Willock, who just got his old job back after launching and winning a proxy battle that led to …
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Hathor’s Roughrider Getting Bigger
VANCOUVER — The Roughrider uranium discovery in northern Saskatchewan keeps throwing out high-grade uranium intercepts for majority owner Hathor Exploration (HAT-V, HTHXF-O).
Aboriginals Want The Option To Say ‘No’
Although the government of Ontario’s proposed new Mining Act has been well-received so far by the mining industry, there is still a great distance between what some stakeholders want and what they wil…
Timminco Merges Magnesium Assets With China’s Winca
If you can’t beat them — join them. That was the rationale behind Timminco’s (TIM-T, TIMNF-O) decision to merge its remaining magnesium extrusion assets with a private Chinese enterprise called Winca…
LME Warehouse Levels (May 11, 2009)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, May 5, 2009 (change from Apr. 28 in brackets): Aluminium Alloy 95460 (1060) Aluminium 3797125 (+71150) Copper 39…
Uracan cuts more uranium at North Shore
Uracan Resources (URC-V) has intercepted uranium on the Double S zone at its North Shore project in Quebec, extendi…
Far West boosts resource and recovery at Santo Domingo
Vancouver – Far West Mining (FWM-T) has nearly doubled the size of the Santo Domingo copper-iron project’s resource…
Chesapeake Gold to use 14.7-million oz. resource in scoping study
Chesapeake Gold (CKG) has deemed the Metates gold-silver project in Durango state, Mexico to have measured and indi…
Eldorado Gold Q1 production falters; share-price holds
Vancouver – News of falling revenues, gold sales and production in the first quarter of 2009 barely dented Eldorado…
BC First Nations, lobby groups, against Enbridge pipeline
First Nations, ethical and environmental groups from British Columbia were in Toronto on May 6 to protest Enb…
Major gold miners hope Goldcorp’s numbers show the way
Lower cost and more gold production proved to be the simple and the winning formula for Goldcorp (G-T) as it announ…
Blackstone advances Scandinavian nickel projects
Vancouver – Thanks to momentum supported by loftier pre-economic meltdown nickel prices Blackstone Ventures (BLV-…