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Junior explorer Commander Resources (CMD-V, CMDRF-O) will be able to step up exploration at its flagship Baffin Island gold project in Nunavut next year thanks to a new, well-heeled partner who will pick up the tab — AngloGold Ashanti (AU-N,…

The dream of building a nickel-copper- platinum group metals mine in Northern Quebec is over for Glenn Mullan, Canadian Royalties’ (CZZ-T, CRYAF-O) chairman, CEO and major shareholder, who’s been work…

Pan American Silver (PAA-T, PAAS-Q) is looking to acquire Aquiline Resources (AQI-T, AQLNF-O) and its large Navidad silver project via a friendly all-share takeover.

Four months after launching an informal bid for the venerable miner Anglo American (AAL-L, AAUKY-Q), diversified mining giant Xstrata (XTA-L, XSRAF-O) announced in mid- October that it has no intentio…

Improving market conditions and rising diamond prices mean that a planned six-week winter shutdown of the Diavik mine, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, has been called off.

VANCOUVER– Three years ago International Tower Hill Mines (ITH-V, THM-X) started its first drill program at the Livengood project, a modest 2,500-metre program designed to follow up on interesting go…

Ryan Matthiesen, a senior associate at Macquarie Capital Advisors in Toronto, had worked on the finance side of the mining sector for more than five years.

VANCOUVER — The medals that will be awarded at the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver are some of the heaviest in the history of the Games and all the metal used in making the big, beauti…

Resurgent commodity prices usually translate into a perked-up pace of M&A and other corporate wheeling and dealing in the junior sphere, and the 41st trading week of the year was no different.

Quebec-based international business law and litigation heavy-hitters, Fasken Martineau, has announced plans to merge with Parisian counterparts Gravel, Leclerc & Partners.