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Strongbow Commences Ground Geophysical Surveys at the Inza Project, British Columbia - 5 Hours Ago
Strongbow Exploration Inc. is pleased to announce it has commenced a program of ground geophysical surveys at its wholly owned Inza copper-gold porphyry target in central British Columbia. |
Galway awards incentive stock options - 5 Hours Ago
Galway Resources Ltd. : is pleased to announce the Company has awarded 1.5 million incentive stock options exercisable at $0.15 per common share to officers, directors, employees and consultants of the Company and expiring on June 30, 2014. |
Duran Announces Peru Acquisitions and Transition to New CEO - 10 Hours Ago
Duran Ventures Inc. is very pleased to announce that the Board has approved, subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals, the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Hatum Minas SAC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Double Jack Mines Limited, a private Alberta company with 22 shareholders. |
Dumont completes interim financing for Alberta polymetallic black shale projects - 11 Hours Ago
Dumont Nickel Inc. is pleased to announce that it has completed the first tranche of a non-brokered private placement financing of flow-through and non-flow-through shares, with arm's length and non-arm's length parties, for total proceeds of $207,500. |
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Riches in the Mountains of Mexico-Tony Rovira of Azure Minerals
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
 At PDAC 2009 we had the opportunity to talk to Tony Rovira founder of Azure Minerals in the Sierra Madre Occidental Range in northwestern Mexico. He has a great reputation as one of the discoverers of the huge Cosmos nickel deposits for Jubilee Mines in Western Australia.
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PREMIER GOLD MINES: Discovering and Developing Gold Deposits in the Superior Province of Canada
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Graeme Lamb
Recently we had an opportunity to talk with Stephen McGibbon P.Geo., who is the Executive Vice-President and COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Premier Gold Mines Ltd.
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Goldbrook Partners with Jilin Jien of China for Nickel Exploration
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison J. Conte
In the last decade, China’s manufacturing and building boom spurred a demand for nickel, about 25 percent of the global demand for this metal.
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Freewest Resources: North American Outstanding Chromite Discovery
by Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
Mac Watson is a firm believer in making your own luck. For 45 years he has pioneered incredibly successful expeditions that have lead to the discovery of significant deposits of gold, coal and base metals throughout eastern Canada.
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Mexivada: Gold-Silver, Uranium, Molybdenum and Diamonds in Nevada, Mexico and Africa
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
Since 2005, Mexivada Mining Corporation has built a genuine name for itself on the international precious minerals scene as a junior exploration and mining company.
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Great Western Minerals Mines and Markets Rare Elements
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison J. Conte
Since we last spoke with Gary Billingsley, Executive Chairman of Great Western Minerals,
in May 2008, his company has continued to expand on their mine-to-market business strategy
with the acquisition of another production facility, an option to recommission a former rare
earth mine in South Africa, and a new heavy rare earth property in New Brunswick.
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Thomas Patton, President & CEO Quaterra Resources Inc. Discovering New North American Mines – Copper, Uranium, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
When it comes to making significant mineral discoveries in North America, Quaterra Resources Inc. is on the cutting edge. We caught up with Quaterra’s President & CEO Dr. Thomas Patton to get the inside scoop on this exciting junior’s current projects and outlook.
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Interview with Warren Bates, Vice President, Exploration for PDX Resources Inc. and Pelangio Exploration Inc.
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
Dating all the way back to the 1930’s, Pelangio Mines Inc. was a pioneer in the mining and exploration industry. On September 6, 2008, the legacy of founder Maurice Hibbard was split into two companies: Pelangio Mines was renamed PDX Resources (“PDX”) and holds Pelangio Mines’ interest in Detour Gold Corporation (“Detour”), and Pelangio Exploration (“PX”) was incorporated to hold Pelangio Mines’ exploration assets.
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John R. Morgan President, CEO & Director Infinito Gold
by Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
 A small river called the Infinito runs through North Central Costa Rica and has become the namesake of a gold exploration & development company based in Calgary, Canada, formerly known as Vannessa Ventures.
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Larry Reaugh, president and CEO of Rocher Deboule
A Visionary in the Mining Industry
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
When it comes
to investing in metals, most people think of gold and silver… but manganese?
Think again! Manganese is the fourth most heavily consumed metal – after iron,
aluminum and copper – but the vital importance of manganese ferroalloys, to a
number of industries, is creating an impressive bull market for savvy
investors.
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PDAC 2008 Toronto
by Allen M. Alper Jr., Dr. Allen M. Alper Sr. and Andrew M. Alper
 Phots from the PDAC international convention and trade show in Toronto, March 2-5, 2008.
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Adriana Accessing Brazil’s Vast Iron Ore Reserves
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
 Mike Beley and Rick Barclay are brilliant business partners. The two exploration veterans have a wealth of experience as evidenced in Metals News’ recent interview with them.
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The World Money Show in Orlando at the Gaylord Palm Resort
by Dr. Allen M. Alper, Editor-in-Chief, Metals News
The World Money Show in Orlando was a great place for investors to meet a huge variety of company experts, global media, world-class companies, software creators, and country representatives.
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Mega Uranium – Leading the nuclear power renaissance
by Andrew Alper, Dr. Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
Clean, secure and cost-effective: Nuclear power is in high demand as one of the most important sources of energy in the world.
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Galway Accelerates Advanced Projects
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Alison J. Conte
When your mining projects focus on metals that have seen price surges of 400 to 500 percent in recent years, investors are apt to take notice.
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Columbia Yukon Sees Bright Future in British Columbia
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Alison Conte
170 million pounds of molybdenum assets in the ground are like money in the bank to Columbia Yukon Explorations. But the exploration company’s future looks even brighter because it has money in the bank to expand the resource underground, as well as a group of experienced, senior geologists that can stay on top of multiple projects at once.
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Formation Capital Corporation: Cobalt for the Future
by Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
From a recent interview Metals News conducted with Mari-Ann Green, CEO of Formation Capital Corporation (FCO-TSX), it’s not difficult to see how good old-fashioned initiative and sound corporate policy can work harmoniously to the advantage of not only the company, but for the shareholders and environment as well.
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Historic Tungsten Mine Pays off for Primary Metals
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Alison J. Conte
Paying attention to local myths and legends may have led Primary Metals to a gold property in Portugal, but it was faith in another legend, the 112 year-old Panasqueira tungsten mine, that has led to prosperity.
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Tiberon Minerals and the Tungsten Market
by Andrew M. Alper
 China’s raw material crunch, limited global supply of tungsten ore concentrates and the great worldwide demand for tungsten products makes Tiberon’s Vietnam Tungsten Property very well positioned.
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ValGold Resources: The little company that can
by Allen Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
It was two years ago, at the 2005 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention, when an exciting turn of events put the Vancouver-based junior on the road to becoming one of the biggest landholders in Venezuela and Guyana. According to ValGold’s President, CEO and Director, Stephen Wilkinson, “We were approached by Newmont, because they needed an exploration group of sufficient quality to take on all their remaining assets in Guyana.”
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Globex Mining Enterprises : a very large North American portfolio of advanced properties with gold, copper, zinc, silver, uranium, platinum, palladium, magnesium and talc potential
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
Jack Stoch has very rare abilities and geological and business background that has enabled Globex to have a very successful approach of discovering and acquiring a vast amount of diversified valuable properties and developing them for licensing or partnership.
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Avalon Rare Metals Inc.: Advancing Green Energy Technology
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
 Metalsnews.com interviewed Don Bubar in Calgary. He has a very strong background in geological exploration and has assembled an excellent team of employees, management, board and consultants to explore and develop one of the largest and richest potential new sources of rare earth elements in the world.
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Phil Vinet Talks About Red Lake Gold District at PDAC 2009
by Allen Alper Jr.
This is Al Alper Jr. with Metals News. I'm here with Phil Vinet, Mayor of Red Lake, Ontario, Canada. Could you give us a little background on Red Lake and its history, Phil?
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Western Troy Capital Resources Positioned in Moly, Copper, and Gold
by Dr. Allen Alper and Bryan Martin
Western Troy Capital Resources, a mineral exploration company based in Canada, keeps itself pretty busy these days with its advanced stage MacLeod Lake Copper/Molybdenum Project and most recently the company has staked a number of promising new properties in Quebec.
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Moly Mines Ready for Market Upturn
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
We interviewed Derek Fisher, managing director of Moly Mines Limited, (ASX and TSX listed), at the Cambridge Vancouver Investment Conference. We are extremely impressed with the knowledge and background of Dr. Fisher and his team. He told us how the firm is focusing its efforts on the Spinifex Ridge molybdenum project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
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Adriana Resources: The New Player in Iron Ore
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Bryan Martin
 
Michael Beley and Richard Barclay are one of the most successful partners in the mining business. They have created billion dollar mining companies. We were fascinated to learn of the progress they have made in developing Adriana Resources into “The New Player in Iron Ore”
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LatAm Mining Congress 2009
by Metals News
The LatAm Mining Congress 2009 will take place June 29 – July 1, 2009 at The Biltmore, Coral Gables, FL.
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Terry Tucker, President and CEO of StrataGold Corporation
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
We recently touched base with Terry Tucker, President and CEO of StrataGold Corporation, and his manager of Investor Communications, Vanessa Pickering, to talk about the happenings at this promising junior exploration company.
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Interviews with Exhibitors at the PM 2008 World Conference Washington DC
by Dr. Allen M. Alper, Editor-in-Chief, Metals News
Diversification is the key
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Great Western Minerals Poised for Rare Opportunity
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
Interview with Gary Billingsley, Chairman, and Jim Engdahl, CEO, of Great Western Minerals
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Outstanding Powder Metallurgy Parts Acknowledged
by MPIF
Winners of the 2008 Powder Metallurgy Design Excellence Awards Competition, sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation, were announced here at the PM2008 World Congress.
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Eastmain Poised for Progress
by By Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
With Goldcorp increasing its funding in one project, and a new drilling program underway on another, Donald J. Robinson, Ph.D., P.Geo., President and CEO of Eastmain Resources, is riding a wave of fantastic news.
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MetalsNews at Ryans Notes Metallics Meeting, Miami 2008
by Andrew M. Alper
The Ryans Notes 2008 Metallics Meeting discussed the global steel market and trends in raw material supply in today's volatile scrap, pig iron and HBI prices. A panel of representatives from steel mills throughout the world talked about their strategies for purchasing raw materials.
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Nuinsco and Victory Nickel Demonstrate the Power of Diversity
by Dr. Allen Alper and Alison Conte
It is 9,056 kilometers between Nuinsco Resources’ Diabase Peninsula uranium project in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin and northeastern Turkey where it is a 50 percent partner with Xstrata Copper on the Berta copper porphyry project.
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Mexico’s Largest Copper/Cobalt Deposit
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
Located on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula near Santa Rosalia, Baja Sur; Boleo is one of the largest copper deposits in development in North America.
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Commerce Resources - the next Canadian Tantalum and Niobium Mine
by Dr Allen M. Alper
 For the past few years, I have been following the developments of Commerce Resources with great interest. Commerce Resources is developing the largest new tantalum and niobium resource in Canada. I have had many conversations with Dave Hodge and his staff.
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PLAYFAIR MINING, LTD.
by Dr. Allen Alper and Holly Spadola
Playfair Mining Ltd., a Vancouver based mining company, continues to advance rapidly towards its goal of becoming one of the world’s principal developers of new high-grade tungsten resources.
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Molybdenum and More
by Dr. Allen Alper, Jill Cueni-Cohen
 Located 24 Km outside the town of Atlin, in the extreme northwestern corner of British Columbia in the floor of an alpine cirque, the Ruby Creek Molybdenum Deposit is the second largest known unexploited & proven deposit in B.C.
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Alldyne Powder Technologies: Company Profile
by Andrew M. Alper
 Located in Huntsville Alabama, Alldyne Powder Technologies,
An Allegheny Technologies company (NYSE: ATI), is a leading producer of advanced Tungsten and Tungsten Carbide materials, mainly serving the hard materials industry.
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Ron Tremblay, President and Director of Levon Resources, Ltd.
by Dr. Allen M. Alper and Jill Cueni-Cohen
We had the opportunity to interview Ron Tremblay, President and Director of Levon Resources, Ltd. Previously a broker and trader with two prominent Canadian securities companies, Tremblay was appointed President of the Vancouver-based junior in October of 2006 at the request of founder Louis Wolfin (CEO and Director) and his son, David (V.P. Finance and Director).
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ASM symposium at MS&T offers new thinking on Light Weight Materials
Novelty, OH - (MetalsNews, July 02, 2009) - The materials showing the way to future vehicles may be light in terms of weight, but they are far from “lightweight” in importance. They will be critical to meeting new U.S. government mandated fuel economy standards of 36 miles per gallon for passenger cars by the year 2014.
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Creston Moly Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Tenajon Resources
Vancouver, British Columbia – (MetalsNews, June 29, 2009) - Creston Moly Corp. (“Creston”) (CMS: TSX-V) and Tenajon Resources Corp. (“Tenajon”) (TJS: TSX-V) announce that they have completed their due diligence and have signed a definitive agreement under which Creston Moly will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Tenajon in consideration for the issue of Creston shares on the basis of 0.84 share of Creston for each share of Tenajon. The boards of directors of Creston and Tenajon have unanimously approved the terms of the Transaction. |
NORTH AMERICAN TUNGSTEN ANNOUNCES CANTUNG MINE TO BE PLACED ON CARE AND MAINTENANCE
Vancouver, BC - (MetalsNews, June 29, 2009) - North American Tungsten Corporation Ltd. (the “Company”) announces that it will
temporarily suspend production at its CanTung tungsten mine in the Northwest
Territories, effective October 15, 2009 due to increased product inventory and declining
tungsten prices.
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Malaga: Rights issue financing of $3.4 M
Montréal, Québec - (MetalsNews, June 26 2009) – Malaga Inc. (“Malaga” or the “Company”) (TSX: MLG) today announced the terms of a rights offering to existing shareholders to raise gross proceeds of up to approximately $3.43 million (the “Offering”). |
Columbia Yukon Provides Corporate and Property Update
West Vancouver, British Columbia – (MetalsNews, June 17, 2009) – Columbia Yukon Explorations Inc. (the “Company” or “Columbia Yukon”) is pleased to provide a corporate and property update regarding its “Storie” Property molybdenum deposit, located near Cassiar, B.C., and its support of the “Northwest Powerline Coalition.” |
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Experts Corner
Dr Allen M. Alper Interviews Philip Klapwijk, GFMS
by Dr Allen M. Alper
 Executive Chairman Philip Klapwijk appears regularly at international conferences and seminars, and his articles have been widely published. All the company’s analysts travel regularly and extensively to stay in touch with GFMS' unrivalled network of contacts and sources of information around the world.
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Al Alper Jr Interviews Leonard Melman of the Melman Report
by Al Alper Jr
 Mr. Melman's is writing a forthcoming book on the essential fundamentals of the developing international financial crisis and its relationship to gold and silver.
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Allen Alper Interviews Jack Lifton; Jack Lifton, Inc
by Dr. Allen Alper
 Jack Lifton is an Independent consultant, focusing on the sourcing of nonferrous strategic metals. His work includes exploration and mining, and the recovery of metal values by the recycling of not only metals and their alloys but also of metal-based chemicals used as raw materials for component manufacturing.
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Gold Leading The Way On Recovery In All Metals
by Larry W. Reaugh
 In my articles of December 9, 2008 and February 13, 2009 I stated that gold would lead the way out of the current metal recession. On February 13, 2009 I stated that bought-deal gold financings were beginning to proliferate in the past few weeks.
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USA’s Strategic Metal # 1 Manganese
by Ken Reser
 Back in 1987 the American government classified a number of metals that were and still are considered strategic war & economically important metals. At that time as today, Manganese was in one of the top spots. But surprisingly many knew long before then about the relativity of Manganese availability to productivity in many sectors of military security and steel production as well as many other modern day uses.
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Worldwide Depression - Think Again!
by Ken Reser
 World-wide depression? Maybe for those over-leveraged in the auto industry, housing, and other fixed assets with huge debt loads but definitely not for those involved in world-wide industrial projects from what I read & see happening.
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Fundamental View on Metal Markets Part II
by Larry W. Reaugh
As a follow up to my resource industry and market
review of December 9, 2008 ‘Fundamental
View on Metal Markets’ let’s review a synopsis of
that letter before proceeding to how corporate debt
and high grading is affecting the supply of metal
commodities today.
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Andrew Alper Interviews Thom Calandra
by Andrew Alper
 We’re interviewing Thom Calandra of TICKER TRAX BY THOM CALANDRA, OR TICKER TRAX at The Cambridge House Investment Resource Conference 2009 in Vancouver.
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Fundamental View on Metal Markets
by Larry W. Reaugh
 The resource industry and market review I have
prepared are the result of several queries from
investors and associates in the past few months about
my feelings and beliefs regarding the current debacle
and what the future holds. Unfortunately, most of us
will be affected on one level or another.
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Metal Powder Industry Faces Challenges
by MPIF
Despite facing a perfect storm of challenges in 2007, the powder metallurgy (PM) industry in North America remains the world’s largest and most innovative PM market, reports Mark Paullin, president of the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), here at the 2008 World Congress on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials.
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