Editor’s Picks: top stories of week 12
The tabling of Canada’s new federal budget on March 19 was the number one event affecting Canada’s miners during th…
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Denison studying open pits at McClean, Hairhan
While chewing on two acquisitions, Denison Mines (DML-T, DNMIF-O) is digesting new resource estimates for the McClean Lake and Hairhan uranium deposits in Saskatchewan and Mongolia, respectively.
Indonesian drilling encourages Southern Arc (March 19, 2007)
Vancouver — Scout drilling by Southern Arc Minerals (SA-V, SOACF-O) at its West Lombok property on Lombok Island, Indonesia, is indicating a number of exten-sively gold-mineralized breccia vein syste…
Facts ‘N’ Figures: Chile loses top ranking in Fraser Institute survey
Vancouver — Mining executives say Manitoba and Alberta have the best policy environments in the world for mining investment, and no longer consider Chile to be among the world’s top 10 jurisdictions …
Eldorado gets Chinese gold mining permit (March 19, 2007)
Vancouver — Eldorado Gold (eld-t, ego-x) recently became the first North American gold producer to be granted a Chinese mining certificate, allowing its Tanjianshan mine to advance to “official” prod…
Freeport, Phelps deal wins vote
Shareholders of Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold (FCX-N) and Phelps Dodge (PD-N) have voted in favour of the propos…
Buffalo Gold acquiring Dynasty Gold
Vancouver – Under a friendly merger plan Buffalo Gold (BUF.U-V, BYBUF-O) plans to acquire Dynasty Gold (DYG-V, DGDC…
Oxus Gold divests Kyrgyz project (March 12, 2007)
Oxus Gold (OXS-L) has sold its interest in the operating company that had developed the Jerooy gold deposit in Kyrg…
Maxy looks to play part in Chinas mining future
Getting a leg up in a country as vast and notoriously fickle as China is no easy task. The optimism that fuelle…
Eldorado gets Chinese gold mining permit (March 07, 2007)
Vancouver – Eldorado Gold (ELD-T, EGO-X) has reached the milestone of being the first North American gold producer …
How to model windfall profits taxes
Commentary In planning a new mine, engineers can draw on a wealth of long-established procedures to prepare a finely detailed study to track construction and…
High on Tibet
SITE VISIT Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China — With the Chinese government looking to use Continental Minerals’ (KMK-V, KMKCF-O) Xietongmen copper-gold deposit as a template…