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By Marc Davis |
April 22, 2013
Western Potash’s Milestone Project in Saskatchewan is now the most advanced undeveloped potash asset in the world. Which makes the company ripe for an acquisition, or a joint venture partnership, with a potash-hungry Chinese government-funded corporate suitor.
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By Marc Davis |
November 28, 2012
In the mining business, when you mix bold innovation with pragmatic business solutions and sustainable practices, you have a winning formula. With this in mind, a small Canadian company just took a big step towards validating a “world’s first” business model for mining potash.
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By Marc Davis |
June 27, 2012
China and India have high-priority national mandates to get a piece of the potash action in what is now being dubbed as Saskatchewan’s Pink Gold Rush. Both emerging superpowers are anxious to lock-in long-term supplies by partnering-up with smaller players.
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By Marc Davis |
March 19, 2012
It seems fitting that Texas is about to become home to the second largest primary silver mine in the US. And it’s being accomplished in a manner befitting Texas’ long tradition of rags-to-riches entrepreneurial success stories.
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By Marc Davis |
January 25, 2012
Exeter Resource last week completed an initial blueprint for the Caspiche deposit, known as a pre-feasibility study, that suggests a mine worth over $27 billion in future revenues is technically and economically viable.
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By Marc Davis |
November 8, 2011
With potash prices spiking higher in response to surging global foods costs, the world's most advanced "independent" potash project is in the cross-hairs of an increasing number of deep-pocketed suitors.
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By Marc Davis |
October 18, 2011
As hot as the blast furnaces required to produce steel, China's ever-expanding economy continues to fuel a seemingly insatiable demand for one of the building blocks of the modern world: iron ore.
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By Marc Davis |
June 14, 2011
Though Nevada's world-famous gold fields have historically yielded over 150 million gold ounces, they are still proving to be geologically fertile hunting grounds for exploration-minded junior mining companies.
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By Marc Davis |
May 10, 2011
The quest to commercialize one of Latin America's last undeveloped major gold deposits is one major step closer to a prospectively big pay day for its unlikely owner - a small gold explorer named Exeter Resource.
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By William Mbaho, Marc Davis |
April 6, 2011
Extorre's current resource base on a gold equivalent basis, which includes the value of the silver, is 2.2 million ounces in two deposits. The company hopes to move that through 3 million ounces within the next year.