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SPT Releases All Latitude High Accuracy Gyro RigAligner™
Stockholm Precision Tools (SPT) is proud to introduce the new Gyro RigAligner™, a device that can accurately and precisely align drill rigs in less than 5 minutes on the surface and in underground operations, increasing productivity. It is specifically designed…
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Top 10 Canadian-headquartered base metal and uranium explorers
The Northern Miner has compiled a list of the top 10, Canadian headquartered base metal and uranium juniors – with no production and which are not a royalty or streaming company. The ranking is based on market capitalization as of…
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GOLD: Aurania allowed to deploy half of its team at Lost Cities – Cutucu
ECUADOR – Aurania Resources has reported that, following the partial lifting of COVID-related restrictions, its field teams are operational at the Lost Cities – Cutucu project in southeastern Ecuador. In a statement, the company’s chairman and CEO, Keith Barron, said that the reopening of…
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SILVER: Alexco’s Keno Hill poised for first production by year end
VANCOUVER – Alexco Resource has received a draft water licence from the Yukon Water Board for its Keno Hill silver operation, and is moving forward with plans to produce its first concentrate before the end of the year. While the draft…
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GOLD: PureGold to pour first gold in Q4 from Red Lake mine
RED LAKE – PureGold’s Red Lake mine is expected to pour first gold in the fourth quarter of this year as development progresses ahead of schedule. The company has purchased 95% of the major equipment items for the site and…
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GOLD: Great Thunder expands Fenelon district holdings
QUEBEC – Great Thunder Gold has acquired an additional 42 sq. km of claims within the Fenelon gold camp, expanding its wholly owned Southern Star project to 123 sq. km. Southern Star is about 6.5 km south of Wallbridge Mining’s…
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SUSTAINABILITY: Seequent launches Contaminants modelling solution
NEW ZEALAND – Seequent, a geoscience software company, has released a Contaminants extension for Leapfrog Works, its 3-D modelling and analysis product. The integrated solution allows geoscientists to create 3-D models of subsurface contamination plumes to reliably define and estimate…
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The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 192: ‘We think long-term’ – Agnico Eagle CEO Sean Boyd on the coronavirus, community and jurisdiction, part 1
This week’s episode features an interview with Agnico Eagle Mines vice chair and chief executive officer Sean Boyd at the Canadian Mining Symposium, held on Zoom on June 16, 2020. Northern Miner group publisher Anthony Vaccaro asked Boyd how the company dealt with the…
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Canadian Mining Symposium closes with Yukon mining panel, featuring Deputy Premier Ranj Pillai
The third and final day of the Canadian Mining Symposium (CMS) closed with a panel discussion featuring the Hon. Ranj Pillai, Deputy Premier, Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and Minister of Economic Development for the Government of Yukon, and…
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COPPER-SILVER: Rio Tinto starts exploration at Janice Lake
SASKATCHEWAN – Rio Tinto has started exploration at Forum’s Janice Lake sedimentary copper-silver project in northern Saskatchewan. The major is earning up to an 80% interest in the project from Forum Energy Metals, which has optioned the property from Transition Metals. Crews have begun construction of the…
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GOLD: Apollo Gold to acquire First Majestic properties
VANCOUVER – Apollo Gold has signed a letter of intent to acquire a group of properties in Jalisco state, Mexico, from First Majestic Silver. The deal is the second option agreement the junior has announced since April. Apollo, which changed…
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GOLD: Liberty Gold discovers new oxide gold zone at Black Pine
IDAHO – Reverse-circulation drilling at Liberty Gold’s Black Pine project has discovered a third zone of oxide gold mineralization – D-3 – underneath the historic drilling boundary. The new zone is currently defined by three holes: two of these, LBP125…
