Resources & Agriculture

The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada this morning granted a trading halt – "pending news" – to Barkerville Gold Mine Ltd., a Vancouver mining company that has hit the headlines over its huge gold resources estimates.

Vancouver-based Corazon Gold Corp. (TSX-V:CGW) has signed an agreement to acquire Vancouver-based ICN Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:ICN), the companies have announced.

B.C.'s prospectors and junior explorers have been grappling with tough economic conditions in the second quarter of 2012, according to the Association for Mineral Exploration BC (AME BC).

Haida Enterprise Corporation (HaiCo) has added another business to its growing suite of enterprises: seafood processing. HaiCo announced Wednesday it has acquired Seapak QCI Processing Ltd. in Massett.

Two B.C. companies are getting close to $150,000 each from Ottawa and Victoria to help them develop technologies to turn agricultural waste into energy. Diacarbon Energy Inc. will receive $142,575 under the Canada-B.C.

Vancouver’s Western Wind Energy Corp.

Escalating capital costs and softening prices are causing mining and metals companies to rethink investment decisions, particularly when it comes to deals, according to a new Ernst & Young report.

Low gas prices, new energy markets drive Methanex to spend $550m relocating idled plant from Chile to Louisiana

Mining: Canadian Zinc, Paragon Minerals to merge

Piling on to Enbridge Inc.’s regulatory troubles, the Northern Gateway proponent is facing new safety-enhancement demands from a U.S. regulator following the company’s recent Wisconsin pipeline oil spill . Following the spill, the U.S.