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DRC lifts mining ban

The Democratic Republic of the Congo will lift a ban on mining in its eastern provinces that it imposed in September to try to cut off funding to armed groups. The decision came just one day after an attack against the Kinshasa residence of…


High-grade intersects for Temex Resources in Timmins

Exploration drilling on the 6 Vein area of the Upper Hallnor mine has returned wide core lengths of gold mineralization, Temex Resources (TME-V) says, with 9.97 grams gold per tonne over 6.70 metres including 66 grams gold over 0.8 metre (hole…





Venture stumbles in Feb. 22-25 week

Vancouver – A shortened week filled with fluctuating oil prices and mid-east unrest saw the S&P TSX Venture Exchange drop 48.06 points between Feb. 22 and 25 to close at 2,375.62 as two days of losses outweighed two days of gains.


Drilling at the Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska. Credit: Northern Dynasty Minerals

Pebble PEA makes a big splash (February 28, 2011)

Vancouver – February was a busy month for Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-T, NAK-X) and Anglo American (AAL-L) at their gigantic Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in southwest Alaska, said by many to be one of the largest undeveloped…


Equinox makes surprise bid for Lundin (February 28, 2011)

A hostile bid by Equinox Minerals (EQN-T, EQN-A) for Lundin Mining worth about $4.8 billion in cash and shares could derail a friendly merger proposed between Lundin and Inmet Mining (IMN-T, IEMF-O) that is scheduled for a shareholder vote on…



TSX down with all the rest, Feb. 21-25

The Toronto Stock Exchange was closed for the Family Day holiday on Monday Feb. 21. When trading resumed, the TSX composite index dropped 70.98 points or 0.50% to finish the abbreviated trading week at 14,052.13, while the S&P/TSX Capped…


Surface mineralization at the northeastern extension of Apella Resources' Lac Dore vanadium project in Quebec.

Spotlight on vanadium

Lithium has grabbed much of the headlines over the last few years when the subject of key metals of the future comes up. But more and more investors are paying attention to vanadium for the metal’s unique attribute of fitting in with two future…


Entre Gold is ‘sitting pretty’

Entrée Gold (etg-t, egi-x) is “strongly undervalued” given the potential that exists for it to sell its Mongolian assets to Ivanhoe Mines (ivn-t, ivn-n) or Rio Tinto (rio-n, rio-l), Christopher Ecclestone of Hallgarten & Co. argues…


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