Vaaldiam Aims To Be South America’s Biggest Diamond Producer, But Investors Remain Resolutely Unimpressed

Nobody is going to fool themselves into thinking that the stockmarket is resilient at the moment, but even given that it’s strange to see that the share price of Vaaldiam, the Canadian-listed company that claims to be the biggest

Douglas Lake Minerals Set To Be The Conduit For Millions Of Dollars To Flow Into Tanzania From China

“At Christmas we came across this property in Tanzania, shown to us by a guy from Anglo - a burlap sluice operation producing 200 kilos of concentrate per month”. Thus begins the tale of the latest chapter of the Douglas Lake

Good News For Coal And Uranium Miners: The World Is Structurally Short Energy, Says The Latest Research From Southern Cross

“The world is structurally short energy. The evidence is everywhere.” So says the latest research from Southern Cross Equities, Australia’s largest independent stockbroker and emerging investment advisory firm. The principal

Platinum Group Metals Is Days Away From Publishing A BFS On Its First Project

June 30th was the deadline that Platinum Group Metals (PGM) gave for the delivery of its Bankable Feasibility Study on Project 1 on its Western Bushveld Joint Venture. The study has in fact been delivered to the company by the

Lydian International Benefits From A First Mover Advantage In Kosovo and Armenia, But There Are Drawbacks Too

Lydian International is a courageous little company which listed in Toronto only seven months ago after it developed a first mover strategy in Kosovo and Armenia. Investors probably react in different ways to these two countries

The World Gold Council's New Japanese ETF Brings Additional Support To The Gold Price

The global popularity of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) was confirmed again this week as the World Gold Council, in conjunction with US investment giant State Street Corporation, launched the first Tokyo Stock Exchange gold ETF. In

With Just One Hiccup To Recover From, Crowflight Minerals Is Getting Set To Become Canada’s Next Nickel Producer

It’s been a long and winding road, but after years of perseverance Canadian-listed Crowflight Minerals is gearing up to make the transition from explorer to nickel producer thanks to developments its Bucko Lake project in

Don’t Believe The Naysayers: Global Growth Remains Robust

Halfway through the year is a good time to take stock of where markets are. Particularly as we are now in the seventh year of this bull market. Those observers thinking that this is it, that there is no more upside may yet be

That Was The Week That Was… In Canada

Minews. Now over to our Canadian Correspondent to see how the Canadian Markets performed this past week.

CC. Well let’s see. In a nutshell, the gold producers were hot but everything else was not. Selling was the dominant theme

Sooner Rather Than Later A Major Will Make A Bid For Gold Eagle Mines

History repeats itself. At least that’s the hope that that Canadian-listed Gold Eagle Mines throws out to itself and everyone interested in gold mining. The company’s main asset is on the Red Lake Trend which is the world’s

As It Re-Organizes Over The Summer, Western Warrior Hopes That With Work, Comes Reward

Early in 2008, Paul Nagerl was actively looking for a new company. After putting in more than twenty years assembling and managing mining portfolios in South and Central America and Scandinavia for Falconbridge and Blackstone

HudBay Minerals Makes A First Foray Into The Nickel Market With The Acquisition Of Skye Resources

Back in March, we mentioned that the appointment of Colin Benner as chief executive of nickel developer Skye Resources had sparked renewed talk that the company would be in play. Well fast forward to June and HudBay Minerals has

Oro Silver Expands Quickly In Mexico, Helped By Strong Local Relationships

When Oro Silver was spun-off from Oro Gold at the beginning of 2007, a plan was already in place to fast track towards production. At its inception, Oro Silver did carry a few inherited silver assets, but after a brief period in

BacTech ’s Technology Releases The Value From Refractory Ores

BacTech’s latest investor presentation carries the strapline: “Responsible Mining Through Technology”. It’s a bland enough statement, and, taken literally, could represent the aspirations of just about anybody with a will to dig

Northland Resources Ought Now To Be Bullet Proof On Its Assumptions For Its Scandinavian Iron Ore Projects

Anyone who has built a large spreadsheet to model a company or a project is always aware of the potential for it to hide a tiny little error that might compromise the whole model. Usually such errors are not significant or are

Mill Bay Ventures Inc

Mill Bay Receives Letter of Comfort on Coal Permits

Stratex International Plc

Approaches 1 Million oz Total Gold Resource

Zambezi Resources Limited

Company Secretary Appointment

Oxiana Ltd

Market Value of Oxiana Shares for Zinifex Shareholders

GUNSON RESOURCES LIMITED

New Nickel Sulphide Targets Defined at Fowler`s Bay

MINTAILS LIMITED

Agreement Reached for Design and Supply of Uranium RIP Plant

QUAY MAGNESIUM LIMITED

Magnesium Plant Acquisition Update

Oxiana Ltd

Oxiana expands its Indonesian strategy

Oxiana Ltd

Prominent Hill project update

Great Panther Resources Ltd.

Great Panther Appoints Former Mexican Senior Trade Commissioner as Vice President, Corporate Relations

Olympus Pacific Minerals Inc.

Olympus Assessing Financing Options for Phuoc Son Mine Development

Pacific North West Capital Corp.

Pacific North West Capital and Benton Resources Complete Helicopter-borne Magnetic and VTEM Survey on the Swayze Nickel Project, Ontario

Cash Minerals Ltd.

Cash Minerals Closes $2,000,000 Private Placement Financing

Scorpio Mining Corporation

Scorpio's Drilling on 9th Level of the Main Zone

Mano River Resources Inc

Director Dealing

AXMIN Inc.

AXMIN transfers its interest and retains a royalty in cape three points for common shares of noble mineral resources limited

DiamondCorp Plc

MARKET UPDATE - JULY 2008

COPPERCO LIMITED

Appendix 3B

Moly Mines Limited

43% increase in Spinifex Ridge Molybdenum Project Ore Reserves

MINTAILS LIMITED

Mintails Awards A US$5.4m Contract to Bateman Litwin