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The S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index surged to a 5-month high going into the Labour Day long weekend, gaining almost 2% or 36.79 points to close out the holiday shortened Aug. 30-Sept. 2 trading se…

Vancouver — Industrial mineral miner Birch Mountain Resources (BMD-V) is going to the market to raise $32 million for its Muskeg Valley limestone quarry in northeastern Alberta….

Guatemala’s Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources has approved the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for Aurogin Resources‘ (AUQ-V) El Sastre Gold project, 30 km nor…

Vancouver — A unit of Apex Silver Mines (SIL-Q) is preparing to drill-test the Malku Khota silver property held by General Minerals (GNM-T) in the Department of…

A bulk sample from the Croinor gold project in the eastern Abitibi district of Quebec has yielded 3,834 oz. gold in a milling campaign….

Strong gains in the energy sector were the story on the Toronto Stock Exchange as Hurricane Katrina pushed up oil and gas prices during the report period Aug. 29-Sept. 4. The Toronto Stock Exchange co…

Swiss-based mining group Xstrata (XTA-L) has agreed to buy some 370,000 additional shares of Falconbridge (FAL.LV-T) from a non-Canadian investor….

Resource companies enjoyed a balmy bounce over the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 report period, with energy and coal companies catching the biggest uplift. The broad-based S&P 500 Index climbed 5.74 points to c…

Vancouver — The delayed technical report on Foran Mining‘s (FOM-V) North Star gold project, situated 36 km west of Snow Lake, Man., seems hardly worth the wait….