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Cameco’s Cigar Lake to produce 6-8 million pounds in 2015

The Canadian company, the world's third-biggest uranium miner, expects the mine to reach full production of 18 million pounds per year in 2018.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 16, 2015 | 12:45 pm

Defending mineral tenure in Canada against foreign court orders

A mineral exploration company faced an unusual situation recently, when Ontario mining officials enforced foreign orders against mining claims for which the company had recorded its interest.

Norton Rose Fulbright | January 15, 2015 | 11:43 pm

Rio Tinto in talks to ship uranium to India

Ceo Sam Walsh has said the firm expects to start exporting Australian uranium to India by 2017.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 14, 2015 | 12:24 pm

Charting Uranium’s gain, Brent Cook looks for sweet spots in the Athabasca Basin

As nuclear plant restarts take effect in Japan, both market sentiment and fundamentals are seeing positive boosts.

The Mining Report | January 13, 2015 | 6:54 pm

Fission Uranium stock skyrockets after doubling up resource estimate

Analysts were expecting 50-80 million pounds, but instead learned the uranium project holds over 105 million pounds in the indicated and inferred categories.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 12, 2015 | 5:40 pm

Fission Uranium hits a home run with maiden resource estimate: 105 million pounds out of the gate

The street was expecting 50-80 million pounds.

Tommy Humphreys | January 11, 2015 | 11:17 pm

Somalia ousts Chinese firm over alleged illegal mining

The firm is also said to have of caused civil turmoil and tensions in the region after introducing armed militia to protect its illegal operation.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 7, 2015 | 6:40 pm

Rick Rule: we need to cut G&A fat from the industry so there are fewer, but more solvent players

During a time where the pain of downward pricing has spilled from minerals into the energy sector, Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott U.S. Holdings was kind enough to share a few comments.

Sprott Global Resource Investments | January 7, 2015 | 1:46 pm

Most Canadian resource firms to grow their business in 2015: survey

But only 34% plans to hire full-time employees and a further 20% is actually considering job cuts.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 6, 2015 | 6:19 pm

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