Costs down and prices set to rise for Western Coal
Vancouver – An effort to reduce cash costs during the recession is paying off for Western Coal (WTN-T), as low…
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A glance at Equinox’s Lumwana mine
Equinox Minerals Ltd. (EQN-T, EQN-A) has secured a US$400 million corporate loan facility from four commercial…
U3O8 Corp to acquire Mega Uranium’s South American assets
Analysts are applauding Mega Uranium’s (MGA-T) decision to spin off its South American uranium assets to U3O8 …
Alexis extends Snow Lake gold mineralization
Alexis Minerals (AMC-T) has wasted no time kicking off a $5-million exploration program since acquiring the Sn…
Queenston releases Upper Canada drill results
Vancouver – Apparently there is still gold waiting to be dug up around Kirkland Lake, Ontario. Queenston …
Silverjack shows polymetallic potential for Slam Exploration
Vancouver – A 20-hole drill program at the Silverjack project in New Brunswick has started to delineate a we…
Aurcana boosts Maravillas deposit resource by 47%
Vancouver-based junior Aurcana Corp. (AUN-V) has expanded the resource estimate at its Maravillas deposit in M…
NovaGold ends class action with $28-M settlement
NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-X) has agreed to a proposed $28-million settlement for a class action lawsuit tha…
Pan American Silver reports record financial results
It certainly wasn’t the case for a lot of mining companies, but 2009 proved to be a dazzling year for Pan Amer…
Iron ore prices to rise, BHP says, even as China curbs liquidity
BHP Billiton (BHP-N) chief Marius Kloppers told Australian Broadcasting Corp.’s Inside Business program in an …
Imperial’s Red Chris Gets Supreme Court Exemption
VANCOUVER — In a decision more than three years in the making, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the ministries working under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) were wrong to reduce …
CAW Asks Gov’t To Keep Kidd Open
The Canadian Auto Workers union has called on both the Ontario and the federal governments to investigate Xstrata’s (XTA-L, XSRAF-O) decision to close the Kidd metallurgical site in Timmins, Ont., thi…