CIBC is first quarter’s top mining dealmaker

Toronto-based jeweller Harry Winston Diamond, which is looking to become the sole owner of Rio Tinto’s Diavik Mine, in Canada's Northwest Territories, said the mine has another 11 years to go and a current net value of $2.6 billion.

Canada’s Franco-Nevada has committed a whopping $1 billion to support the development costs of Inmet's massive Cobre Panama copper project in exchange for a future precious metals stream.

Newspaper magnate David Black is proposing a $13 billion oil refinery to be built in Kitimat to process oil from the Northern Gateway pipeline before shipment.

The downturn in potash prices claimed more victims this week.

The Northern Miner called Garth Kirkham, chairman of the best practices committee at the Geological Society of Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum (CIM), who was not sparing in his opinion of the 43-101 that Barkerville Gold released on Monday night.

Despite reporting a 14% increase in silver production and record quarterly gold output, Pan American Silver Corp.'s (TSX:PAA) second-quarter earnings slid 61%, as the miner was hit by a double-digit decline in the precious metal prices.

Inventory levels of potash in North America fell 15% last month, according to Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (NYSE:POT).

The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada applied a temporary suspension of trading for Barkerville Gold Mines on Tuesday, in light of the imminent release of the company's 43-101 is set to be released today.

Toronto-based jeweller and watchmaker Harry Winston, is suing M.K. Winston Jewelers for alleged copyright infringement.