Pacific Bay Minerals (TSXV: PBM) has extended the Meteor Boot zone 20 metres southeast at its Haskins-Reed polymetallic project in northern B.C. with a recent, seven hole, 448 metre drill program.The company tested targets near the Meteor zone, where 2011 drilling cut 17.5 metres grading 88.35 grams silver, 1.11% lead and 3.39% zinc.Highlights from the company's recent drill program include 5.2 me...Read More
Bedford-based RosCan Gold (TSXV: ROS) announced this week positive assay results from an initial Air Core drilling program at its Kandiole project in western Mali.The project is comprised of five permits of contiguous land in the Birimian Rocks, east of B2Gold's Fekola mine and Iamgold's Boto and Diakha deposits.In a press release, RosCan said that the drilling program was completed in December 20...Read More
Bedford-based RosCan Gold (TSXV: ROS) announced this week positive assay results from an initial Air Core drilling program at its Kandiole project in western Mali.The project is comprised of five permits of contiguous land in the Birimian Rocks, east of B2Gold's Fekola mine and Iamgold's Boto and Diakha deposits.In a press release, RosCan said that the drilling program was completed in December 20...Read More
Canada's Mirasol Resources (TSX-V: MRZ) announced that it has signed an option to purchase agreement which would allow it to complete the consolidation of the Sascha - Marcelina low sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag district in the Santa Cruz province of southern Argentina.In a press release, Mirasol explained that under the terms of the agreement, it can acquire 100% of the Marcelina claims from a pri...Read More
Canada's Mirasol Resources (TSX-V: MRZ) announced that it has signed an option to purchase agreement which would allow it to complete the consolidation of the Sascha - Marcelina low sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag district in the Santa Cruz province of southern Argentina.In a press release, Mirasol explained that under the terms of the agreement, it can acquire 100% of the Marcelina claims from a pri...Read More
On Wednesday morning, a rocket blasted off from Blue Origin's West Texas facility in West Texas, carrying eight NASA experiments into space with it.Climbing past an altitude of 350,000 feet (over 100 kilometers), the New Shepard rocket launched its capsule, from which the company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos plans to conduct space tourism. Blue Origin tweeted that it plans to begin flying huma...Read More
Ontario electricity consumers will benefit from about $200 million in cost savings from operational efficiencies at Bruce Power, putting more than $5 million per month into consumers' pockets over the next three years.Provisions built into the Bruce Power Refurbishment Implementation Agreement with the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) ensure that the people of Ontario benefit from an...Read More
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will continue to invest aggressively despite an uncertain business environment, a senior company executive said at a Reuters BreakingViews event on Friday.Alibaba's executive vice-chairman Joe Tsai struck an optimistic note about China and said people were over worried about the country's economy, adding that Chinese consumers were still fundament...Read More
China is likely to lift exports of battery chemicals such as lithium hydroxide this year as domestic producers expand output and try to profit from higher overseas prices amid rising global demand for electric vehicle batteries, the chief executive of lithium miner Pilbara Minerals said on Friday.The increasing exports from China, which is mainly considered a buying of battery materials because of...Read More
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Colombia has extended coal miner Drummond's license to operate its La Loma mine for an additional 20 years, the national mining agency said on Thursday.The contract at the mine, located in northeastern Cesar province, will generate at least $586 million in royalties, income and social project investment during its lifetime, the agency said in a statement on its website. The company has operated th...Read More
In his latest Discovery Watch interview, John Kaiser who runs Kaiser Research Online sees some encouraging signs from recent developments the Nevada Exploration (NGE) South Grass Valley Project. Meanwhile, hopes of a clear path towards finding a large world-class resource at the Westhaven Ventures (WHN) Shovelnose project suffered a setback this week, even as the main story of a high-grade discov...Read More
Barrick Gold Corp.'s new chief executive officer, Mark Bristow, said his company is seeking solutions to a dispute over mining taxes in Zambia."We're engaged with the government in a constructive way," he told reporters at a press conference in the Ivory Coast's economic capital, Abidjan. "We don't believe that threatening one's partner is a constructive way to go about solving problems."Mining co...Read More
A tailings dam at a Brazilian iron ore operation owned by local mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) burst Friday, releasing a river of sludge that covered nearby buildings and forced the evacuation of hundreds of locals.By Saturday morning, 34 bodies had been recovered, and the death toll was expected to rise sharply as rescuers continued searching for hundreds that are still missing.Vale reported the d...Read More
Canadian junior Explorex Resources (CSE:EX) (OTC:EXPXF) has placed its plans to buy the Hautalampi cobalt, nickel and copper project in eastern Finland on the back burner because it won't be able to secure the required funding in advance.The Vancouver-based miner, which in November said it intended to acquire the Finish asset, was supposed to pay the project's owner, FinnCobalt, around $1.9 milli...Read More
The electrification of cars and surge in renewables is driving a copper rush.Read full newsRead More
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New Caledonia's SLN nickel company says this month's strike has created a serious situation for the already troubled business.Read full newsRead More