Ontario offers $5M to spur critical mining innovation
Ontario is starting a two-year, $5 million critical minerals innovation fund to support research and development of new technologies. The fund is to support Ontario-based…
BHP Billiton Canada Inc
BHP invests in Midland Exploration
BHP (NYSE: BHP) is investing in Midland Exploration (TSXV: MD) to support the junior’s copper exploration in northern Quebec, including its Mythril copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project in…
De Beers walks away from Peregrine’s Chidliak
Peregrine Diamonds (PGD-T) announced in October that diamond giant De Beers has decided not to exercise an option to earn 50.1% of the Chidliak diamond…
Fipke takes legal action to stop Ekati sale
Chuck Fipke, a minority shareholder in the Ekati joint venture, is trying to block BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-L) from selling its majority interest in the Ekati diamond mine to Harry Winston Diamond (HW-T, HWD-N) for US$500 million.
On the diamond trail
Afri-Can Marine Minerals
BHP approves US$240 million capital expenditure for Jansen
BHP Billiton Diamonds, a member of the BHP Billiton (BHP-N) group of companies, has given the green light to s…
Diavik surpasses 20M carats
In the little over three years since startup, the Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories has produced just under 20 million carats of rough diamonds to the end of 2005….
Tethyan finds buyers in Antofagasta, Barrick
The board of Australian explorer
Miners bounce back in quiet market
U.S. stock markets rose fractionally in the trading period Feb. 14-20, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 index rising 11.71 points to 1,287.24. The broader trend concealed a generally strong showing…
Nichromet’s Ricardo Valls rises to life’s challenges — and nickel’s
Three years after the Bre-X scandal and subsequent decline of the mining industry, geologist Ricardo Valls found himself standing at the edge of a subway platform….
Motapa targets southern African diamonds
Vancouver — With a well-pedigreed board,
