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Battle for Noront heats up with BHP sweetened offer

The world’s largest miner is now offering C$0.75 per share of Noront, representing a 36% premium to its previous offer, a 7% premium to the Wyloo offer and a 213% premium to Noront’s unaffected price.

Maritime drills 160 g/t gold at Hammerdown

Maritime Resources (TSXV: MAE) is drilling bonanza grades at its Hammerdown gold project in the Baie Verte region of Newfoundland. The project […]

Noront Resources picks Wyloo bid over BHP

A months-long battle over nickel-copper miner Noront Resources (TSX-V: NOT) may have come to an end as the Canadian company said on Monday it had picked a sweetened bid from Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Wyloo Metals (ASX:WYL), over the latest offer from BHP.  […]

Orica unveils second generation wireless blasting

Orica unveiled its second generation through-the-earth, fully wireless initiating system, WebGen 200, at MINExpo in Las Vegas last week. WebGen technology provides […]