HOT TOPIC: Do you like the BHP offer for PotashCorp?
Merger and acquisition activity is heating up in all sectors since late in 2009. Deals worth tens of billions ...
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PERSPECTIVE: BHP fires $40B opening salvo in hostile takeover of PotashCorp
Potash is hot, hot, hot - both potash the indispensable commodity and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: HudBay, Orsa Ventures and Tamerlane
Toronto-based HudBay Minerals has made three key appointments. Long-time HudBay employee Tom Goodman has been ...
FINANCING: Teck to raise US$750 million on new notes
VANCOUVER - Teck Resources has announced plans to raise US$750 million through the sale of senior unsecured no...
TAILS REPROCESSING: Kettle River eyes former Phoenix mine
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Kettle River Resources of Greenwood, BC, is investigating the possibility of recovering gol...
BISMUTH REFINERY: Fortune Minerals produces first ingot
SASKATCHEWAN - Fortune Minerals of London, ON, has successfully produced a 99.99% Bi metal ingot smelted from ...
NICKEL MINING: Goro produces first metal
NEW CALEDONIA - Vale SA of Rio de Janeiro announced on Aug. 9 that its Goro nickel laterite project produced i...
PERSPECTIVE: Northern Manitoba Mining Academy has HudBay backing
What's a nice Toronto-based company like HudBay Minerals doing in a consortium to fund a school in Manitoba? T...
COPPER-GOLD DEVELOPMENT: Permits received for Nugget Pond mill and Ming shaft
NEWFOUNDLAND - Rambler Metals & Mining of London, UK, and Baie Verte, NF, has received the provincial perm...
IRON ORE DEVELOPMENT: Permits received for Phase One of Schefferville project
LABRADOR - Labrador Iron Mines Holdings (LIM) of Toronto has received certificates of approval for the constru...
GOLD-ZINC DEVELOPMENT: Go-ahead confirmed for Lalor mine, 777 expansion
MANITOBA - The directors of Toronto-based HudBay Minerals have given the official go-ahead for full constructi...
GOLD EXPLORATION: High grades expand Lake Shore’s Timmins mine
ONTARIO - Lake Shore Gold of Toronto reports that drilling on the 650 level of its Timmins gold mine has encou...
Kenorland reports major gold resource at Frotet, backs 4% royalty
Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD; US-OTCQX: KLDCF) unveiled an inaugural inferred mineral resource for the Regnault gold deposit at the Frotet project in […]