Thompson Creek piles up cash in Q3
Thompson Creek Metals (TSX: TCM; NYSE: TC) is improving its operations and balance sheet, despite ending the third quarter in the red.
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Foran’s positive PEA at McIlvenna Bay
Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM) has touched a milestone at its flagship McIlvenna Bay project in east-central Saskatchewan, with the completion of a promising preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the zinc-copper-gold-silver volcanogenic massive…
Glencore to shut Australian coal mines temporarily
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) says it plans to shut down its coal operations in Australia for three weeks starting from mid-December due to slack demand and weak prices.
Tahoe set to expand Escobal
VANCOUVER — Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO) has expanded resources and tabled an updated feasibility study at its high-grade Escobal silver mine in southeast Guatemala, setting the stage for expanded silver production…
Odds ‘n’ sods: Mining the Memories – Tough muckers
Many of the miners — or muckers, as those men who loaded the ore cars were called — came to Canada from Europe after the First and Second World Wars in search of a more peaceful life where one could earn an honest dollar, without…
True Gold targets first gold pour in late 2015
Vancouver-based gold junior True Gold Mining (TSXV: TGM) likes to get things done quickly.
AuRico Gold invests in Carlisle and Manitoba
For the last six months, AuRico Gold (TSX: AUQ; NYSE: AUQ) has been sizing up Carlisle Goldfields (TSX: CGJ) and its Lynn Lake gold project in Manitoba.
Primero misses Q3 expectations on impairment charge
Primero Mining’s (TSX: P; NYSE: PPP) quarterly earnings took a hit after it wrote down the goodwill value of the acquisition of Brigus Gold.
Geologic Materials Center opens in Alaska
The state of Alaska’s geological collection has a new home in Anchorage.
PotashCorp eyes stong 2014 finish
Despite Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan’s (TSX: POT; NYSE: POT) third-quarter profit declining 11%, it expects to finish the year on an upbeat note.
B2Gold wrestles with operational issues at Masbate, Limon
VANCOUVER — Producer B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-MKT: BTG) has made a name for itself through its operational acumen in tough jurisdictions, but ongoing ramp-up issues caught up to the company during the third quarter.
Kaminak’s Coffee project ‘as vanilla as it gets’
Kaminak Gold (TSXV: KAM; US-OTC: KMKGF) president and CEO Eira Thomas says the company’s high-grade and potentially high-margin Coffee gold project in the Yukon would be simple to mine and process.