Minews Story: March 11, 2010
If the annual Cordilleran Round-Up Conference held in Vancouver in January focused on the recent exploration successes in Canada’s Yukon Territory, the now concluded Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Conference in
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Minews Story: March 09, 2010
Individuals that make their living in the mineral resource sector are well aware of the dramatic volatility that comes with the run-of-the-mill commodity cycle. So, in theory the quick bounce back from the 2008-2009 commodity
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Minews Story: March 08, 2010
Before we get too deeply into the details of ASX-listed Elemental Minerals and its operations at the Sintoukola potash project in the Republic of Congo, one thing has to be made quite clear. The Republic of Congo is NOT the
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Commodities: March 07, 2010
Cobalt and molybdenum trading has been underway on the LME for two weeks now and by all accounts has made a good start. These minor metals have high values and both are vital constituents for making steels, and especially the
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Minews Story: March 05, 2010
Minews. Now, over to our Canadian Correspondent for a look at how the Canadian markets performed over the past week.
CC. There was a burst of new buying in the resources space, after a better than expected jobs report out of the
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Minews Story: March 05, 2010
James, who was in his mid-sixties, died on February 11th from cancer. To us, at Minesite, he was always accessible and immensely helpful. Des Kilalea, of Royal Bank of Canada Europe, has written an affectionate account of James
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Features: March 04, 2010
For many investors, Colombia remains a grey spot on their mental maps of South America. La Violencia, the 50-year dark age in its recent past, came to an end with the close of the 20th century. But the memories are fresh, and the
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Minews Story: March 04, 2010
“Last year was pretty difficult for us juniors”, says Ralph Shearing, chief executive of Soho Resources. Not many of his peers would disagree, though by the end of 2009 a lot of the blockages in the financial markets seemed to be
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Minews Story: March 02, 2010
Sometimes people are just too cool for school, as the younger generation say. Looking back at the violence with which the financial storms were raging in 2008 and 2009, it seems hard to credit that anybody was contemplating
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Minews Story: March 02, 2010
It was no fun when the storms of the global financial crisis were at their wildest, not even for companies working in relatively safe jurisdictions and mining the most desirable of all the commodities, gold. One such company was
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Commodities: March 01, 2010
The New Year is no longer quite so new, and some of the optimism that surrounded markets at the start of 2010 has started to look a little frost damaged. It is now clear that the major developed economies are recovering, but that
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Minews Story: February 26, 2010
Minews. Now, over to our Canadian Correspondent for a look at how the Canadian markets performed over the past week.
CC. The month of February ended with buyers continuing to shop for advanced assets, even as the junior
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Minews Story: February 25, 2010
It has been something of a roller-coaster ride for Peter Hawley, chief executive of Canadian-listed Scorpio Mining. Scorpio owns and operates the Nuestra Sonora mine near the town of Casala in Sinaloa State, Mexico. When we last
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Features: February 25, 2010
At any given time, there's a single international spot price for an ounce of refined gold. Gold is priced in US dollars: $1,106.10 per ounce as we go to press. But what about the gold an exploration or mining company has in the
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Minews Story: February 23, 2010
Go to BacTech’s website, and you’ll immediately notice a change. Straight away, as you hit the home page, you’re confronted by a double screen, split directly down the middle. On the left, the links that will take you to all the
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