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URANIUM: Fission to prepare PEA for underground only option at PLS
SASKATCHEWAN – Fission Uranium of Kelowna, B.C., is looking at an underground only option for mining its Patterson Lake South property on the southwest edge of the Athabasca Basin. Potential benefits of such a plan include low operating costs, lower…
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GOLD: Barkerville expands Island Mountain mineralization at depth
BRITISH COLUMBIA – Toronto-based Barkerville Gold Mines is sharing new results from 24 recent holes at the Island Mountain deposit, part of its flagship Cariboo gold project in the central part of the province. The Island Mountain mineralization has been…
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GOLD: Iamgold drills 370 g/t at Monster Lake project
QUEBEC – This year’s winter drilling at the Monster Lake gold project 44 km southwest of Chibougamau is turning up some widly differing assay results. Operator and 50% owner Iamgold of Toronto has tested two shear zones on behalf of…
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ENVIRONMENT: BHP to invest $400M to slow climate change
AUSTRALIA – Melbourne-based BHP Group has announced a five year, US$400-million program to develop technologies to fight climate change at its own operations as well as those generated from the use of its resources. BHP has pledged to establish new…
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LIGHTING: Power use down, brightness up for LED lights
I NDIANA – Hazard and warning lights are essential to ensure the visibility and safety of vehicles used in mining such as earth movers, bulldozers, excavators, off road trucks, etc. Whether it’s directional lighting, strobes or clearance markers, these lights…
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Top 10 Canadian base metal explorers and developers
The Northern Miner used the IntelligenceMine database of our sister company Infomine to determine the top-10 largest base metal companies headquartered in Canada that have non-producing assets. The list is ranked by market capitalization. Continue reading at The Northern Miner.
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COPPER: Romios starts exploring several BC properties
BRITISH COLUMBIA – Romios Gold Resources announced that its exploration team started fieldwork on its Andrei claim block, the Royce/Porc property and the nearby JW and Trek porphyry copper projects in the Golden Triangle in the northwestern part of the…
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LITHIUM: Pallinghurst promises $600M to Nemaska
QUEBEC – Nemaska Lithium, headquartered in Quebec City, says it has signed a letter of intent with the Pallinghurst Group which plans to invest $600-million in the Whabouchi lithium mine and mill 300 km northwest of Chibougamau and the electrochemical…
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GOLD: Bonterra continues to cut high grades at Gladiator, Barry
QUEBEC – The exploration programs underway by Bonterra Resources of Val d’Or, Que., at its Gladiator and Barry gold properties continue to return high grades – 18.5 g/t gold over 3.0 metres and 11.6 g/t gold over 2.9 metres, respectively.…
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GOLD: Anaconda, Mi’kmaw chiefs sign MOU for Goldboro
NOVA SCOTIA – Toronto-based Anaconda Mining and the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs signed a memorandum of understanding for the Goldboro gold project 185 km northeast of Halifax. The MOU will govern the process by which the parties will…
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CONTRACTING: SNC-Lavalin exits lump sum turnkey contracting
MONTREAL – SNC-Lavalin Group has decided to exit the lump sum turnkey (LSTK) contracting sector. Instead the company’s resources (oil and gas and mining and metallurgy) and infrastructure construction will be reorganized into a separate business unit. The company says…
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Rockcliff gears up to drill in Snow Lake
At the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in Toronto in March 2018, Rockcliff Metals (CSE: RCLF) was a struggling junior with a large land package in the lesser known but geologically rich Flin Flon-Snow Lake (FF-SL) greenstone belt, with…
