Australia-based Magma Metals has released a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its Thunder Bay North platinum-palladium-copper-nickel project in Ontario, Canada. The PEA […]

Rio Tinto has green-lighted an expansion of the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC)  facility in Labrador City, Canada. The second of […]

Two of the world’s largest mining bourses are talking about a merger, according to two major newspapers who broke the story on […]

Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. has reached a deal with BMO Capital Market to raise $75 million for exploration work in Nunavut, […]

One of the world’s largest copper and silver producers has signed a contract worth nearly $US 700 million for the sale of […]

The surge in gold prices has spawned a modern-day “gold rush” in British Columbia, Alaska and the Yukon. Where gold panners once searched for nuggets in the frigid waters of northern streams, junior exploration companies are drilling, sampling and pushing ahead with development of new mines. One company that appears to be on the move to becoming that next big producer is Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd. (SPA-V).

Copper was edging US$10,000 a tonne on Friday, with three-month copper rising $25 to $9,995 a tonne on the London Metals Exchange ahead of US non-farm payroll numbers, Reuters reported.

B.C.-based gold company Great Basin Gold is cashing up to the tune of $75 million.

The CEO of a Canadian coal start-up says voracious demand for thermal coal will keep the shovels turning for three decades on a proposed new mine in Western Canada.

The lead smelting process is getting greener thanks to new technology unveiled recently by The Doe Run Company.

The bull market for commodities that made 2010 a banner year for mining and mining exploration is likely to continue throughout 2011, according to three panelists who addressed the question at a recent forum in Vancouver, Canada.

Miller Argent (South Wales) Limited, a company responsible for reclaiming land in Wales that incorporates opencast coal mining, has recently installed a […]