Norway’s $1 trillion fund resumes investing in miners, oil and Walmart

Lake Shore Gold added 8.2% on Thursday after announcing positive financial and operating results for the first quarter as it accelerates a $160 million capex programme for the year.

Confused about the political machinations surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline, or baffled by talk of crude oil discount rates, Oklahoma bottlenecks and Texas Gulf refining capacities?

A proposal by Imperial Metals to develop the Red Chris mine in northern BC is not sitting well with a local First Nation.

Trading barbs over the allocation of resource revenues is a blood sport in Canada, and the latest contenders are newly minted NDP leader Thomas Mulcair and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall.

Denison Mines Corp shed 1.2% on Wednesday bringing its losses over the last week to 19% ahead of quarterly results that showed the company widened losses to $51.9 million.

Ryan Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE:RYG) ("Ryan Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce its exploration plans for the 2012 exploration season in the Yukon Territory.

Canadian miner giant Teck Resources Ltd. (NYSE:TCK, TSX:TCK.B) is interested in entering the iron ore industry and would seek to acquire a producing asset rather than develop a mining project, chief executive Don Lindsay told Bloomberg yesterday at the Canada Economic Summit, in Toronto.

The Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines announced today that Cliffs Natural Resources will invest $3.3 billion to build a chromite mine, transportation corridor and processing facility in Northern Ontario's Ring of Fire, generating thousands of jobs and new infrastructure.

While 2011 was a near-record year for mining mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with over 2,600 deals worth $149 billion in the global mining sector, 2012 is not looking so good, at least not for Canada. The value of mining M&A tumbled 50% in the first quarter compared to the prior three months, with only one deal over $1 billion, said KPMG in a report.