Odds ‘n’ Sods: The birth of the Smithers Exploration Group’s annual golf tournament
VANCOUVER – Exploration in northwestern B.C. was firing in 1972, and many explorers used services out of the small community of Smithers, B.C. This group…
Volume 102 Number 18 Jun 13 – 19, 2016
Editorial: Northern Superior loses case in Ontario
A long-simmering legal case revolving around the duty to consult in Ontario’s Mining Act has been resolved, with plaintiff Northern Superior Resources having its action…
Champion Iron optimistic at Bloom Lake
Champion Iron (TSX: CIA; ASX: CIA) is lowering projected costs at the recently acquired Bloom Lake iron ore mine in the Labrador Trough, as part…
TSX returns to a bull market, May 30–June 3
The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose nearly 0.9% to close at 14,226.78, up 20% from its Jan. 20 low, and marking a return to a bull…
U.S. equities hold steady, May 30-June 3
Economic data was mixed with reports that U.S. consumer spending in April posted its sharpest increase in more than six years, while jobs data showed…
TSX Venture Exchange rallies, May 30-June 3
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index gained 3.8%, or 25.18 points, to a 693.72-point close, while gold prices strengthened on doubts that the U.S. Federal Reserve…
Pure Energy’s Robinson surveys the world’s lithium deposits
VANCOUVER —While the burgeoning lithium market has sent companies scrambling to secure and advance lithium projects across the globe, anyone new to the scene may…
Pure Energy fosters ingenuity for lithium brine technology
VANCOUVER — Pure Energy Minerals (TSXV: PE) is testing a processing technology that could be a game changer for its Clayton Valley South lithium brine project,…
Rye Patch scoops up Florida Canyon gold mine in Nevada
VANCOUVER —Rye Patch Gold (TSXV: RPM; US-OTC: RPMGF) is buying the venerable Florida Canyon heap-leach gold mine in Pershing County, Nev., out of receivership after…
Zafranal could produce copper for nearly two decades, study says
A positive prefeasibility study on the Zafranal project — an Andean style porphyry copper-gold deposit in southern Peru owned by Teck Resources (TSX: TCK.A; TSX:…
NEO Lithium hits high-grade
From satellite imagery, Tres Quebrados just looked like an ordinary freshwater lake in northwestern Argentina. But when Waldo Perez stuck his hands into the brownish…
Dynacor prepares for maiden resource at Tumipampa
Dynacor Gold Mines (TSX: DNG; US-OTC: DNGDF) is preparing to table the first-ever resource calculation at its Tumipampa gold-copper exploration project, 500 km southeast of…