Iamgold bids for Cambior (September 25, 2006)
A friendly deal between Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-N, IGD-A) and Cambior (CBJ-T, CBJ-X) would see Iamgold take over the Montreal-based gold miner in a paper deal valued at $1.3 billion to form a gold company…
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Bringing Chile’s copper unions into the modern age
Santiago, Chile — The union representing 2,052 workers at the Escondida copper mine in Chile’s Region II signed a new collective contract on Sept. 1, bringing an end to a 25-day strike and giving wor…
Lumina merging with Western Copper
Vancouver — The latest in a series of industry consolidations sees Lumina Resources (LUR-T, LUMNF-O) merging with Western Copper (WRN-T, WCPCF-O) in an all-share deal….
Tejamen key to Oremex growth
A newly commissioned preliminary assessment study is expected to provide Oremex Resources (ORM-V, ORXRF-O) with a first-pass look at the potential economics of its Tejamen silver property in Durango s…
Keys to painless POP offerings
It has been several months since the prompt offering procedure (the “POP system”) in National Instrument (NI) 44-101 was opened up to smaller reporting issuers. Many of these issuers have found the PO…
Editorial: When Kipushi comes to shove (September 25, 2006)
In a battle now at the stage of competing advertisements in mining and business publications, Canada’s First Quantum Minerals and South Africa’s Kumba Resources have threatened legal action against co…
Promising results from Tli Kwi Cho
Despite falling well short of recovering 3,000 tonnes of bulk sample from the DO-27 kimberlite pipe this past year, Peregrine Diamonds (PGD-T) is encouraged by the results from the 548 dry tonnes it d…
KEGS delivers scholarships
The KEGS Foundation, now in its seventh year of supporting Canadian undergraduates and graduates in geophysics, has awarded nine scholarships totalling $7,500 to five undergraduate and four graduate s…
Uranium fund a new way to play
Considering all the recent buzz around uranium, surprisingly little has been done in the way of investment vehicles that would give investors better exposure to the hot commodity….
A peculiar paradox for Chile’s investors
Santiago, Chile — As copper prices boomed earlier this year, investment managers in the gleaming skyscrapers of uptown Santiago found themselves facing a paradox….
Poirier picks two hot juniors
It’s hard to find value in a market that has been overheated by record high commodity prices and merger mania, but Don Poirier, an analyst with Blackmont Capital who has followed the junior side since…
Baffinland aims to revive mining in Canada’s Far North
Developing a mine with an estimated capital cost of $1.5 billion is a daunting proposition for any junior company, particularly if the project is situated in a remote Arctic region with challenging lo…