Miramar Mining Corporation
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HISTORY: Yellowknife’s Robertson Headframe comes down
Yellowknife: A landmark of Yellowknife’s 70 years of gold mining heritage disappeared at 5 PM Saturday afternoon, when the 25-storey high (76 meter) Robertson Headframe shuddered and toppled in a controlled explosive demolition. The steel tower (the tallest building in…
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CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVE: Tahera Diamonds suspends Jericho mining
Toronto’s TAHERA DIAMOND CORP. has decided to suspend mining at the Jericho mine early in February. The announcemen…
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TAKEOVER – Newmont now holds 93% of Miramar, extends offer
DENVER – NEWMONT MINING CORP. reports that it has acquired 93% of the common shares of MIRAMAR MINING CORP. of Vanc…
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GOLDEN ACQUISITION – Newmont offers $1.5B for Miramar
DENVER – NEWMONT MINING CORP. has struck a deal to acquire Vancouver-based MIRAMAR MINING for Cdn$6.25 cash per sha…
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GOLD DEVELOPMENT – Site prep begins for Doris North mine
NUNAVUT – At long last, and after several years of doing extra environmental studies as requested by the Nunavut Im…
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MINE CLOSURE – Plan approved for Con gold mine
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – Vancouvers MIRAMAR MINING CORP. has restarted the autoclave at the Con gold mine in Yellow…
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GOLD EXPLORATION – Miramar cuts wide section of 12 g/t at Hope Bay
NUNAVUT – The $31-million drill program begun by MIRAMAR MINING of Vancouver at its Hope Bay gold project looks to …
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MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Cross Lake, Entre Gold, JNR Resources, Lake Shore Gold, Miramar, Redcorp, Selkirk Metals, Sherwood Copper, Tahera, TTM Resources and Wolfden
CROSS LAKE MINERALS of Vancouver has appointed Tom Colbourne its VP mining. He was involved in the original develop…
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GOLD EXPLORATION – Miramar commits $31M for Hope Bay
NUNAVUT – MIRAMAR MINING of Vancouver has promised $31 million for a 72,000-m drill program at its Hope Bay gold pr…
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FUEL SPILL – Miramar to pay fine for incident at Hope Bay
NUNAVUT – MIRAMAR HOPE BAY LTD. of Vancouver has been fined $100,000 in NUNAVUT TERRITORIAL COURT in Cambridge Bay …
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GOLD DEVELOPMENT – Hope Bay moves forward
NUNAVUT – Technically the Hope Bay gold project owned by MIRAMAR MINING of Vancouver is not yet a “development” pro…
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GOLD EXPLORATION – Miramar raises $15M for work in Nunavut
NUNAVUT – Vancouver-based MIRAMAR MINING has raised $15 million through the sale of 2.0 million flow-through common…