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Cliffs Natural Resources' Black Thor chromite project near McFauld's Lake in northern Ontario. Photo by Cliffs Natural Resources

Cliffs says Ontario’s electricity prices are too high

Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF-N) is warning that high electricity rates in Ontario are forcing it to widen its search for a location to build a proposed ferrochrome production facility that will use a closed electric arc furnace to treat ore…




Fire River Gold completes PEA on Nixon Fork gold mine

Capital costs to resume production at Fire River Gold’s (FAU-V, FVGCF-O) flagship Nixon Fork underground gold mine in Alaska are estimated at US$6.3 million with a projected payback of three months according to a preliminary economic assessment.


Taseko to add capacity at Gibraltar mine

Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) wants to take advantage of robust copper prices and expand capacity at its 75%-owned Gibraltar mine in the Cariboo region of British Columbia and Williams Lake. 


Vanadium: metal of future and present.

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 metals unique attribute of fitting in with two future…



Northgate Minerals updates resource at Kemess

Northgate Minerals (NGX-T, NXG-N) has boosted its indicated resource tonnes by 18% and its contained gold and copper by 10% and 9% respectively at its Kemess underground project in north-central British Columbia.


Editorial: US budget folly to extend commodities boom

U.S. politics veered into the surreal this week, as U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a deficit-laden, US$3.73-trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2012 that completely ducks the critical issue of unsustainable spending by the U.S. government…


People (February 14, 2011)

ArcelorMittal – Simon Wandke appointed as a VP and mining division’s chief commercial officer of marketing and sales.



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