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GOLD STUDY: Pit and underground planned at Maverick

MANITOBA – Auriga Gold Corp. of Toronto is planning both open pit and underground mining at its Maverick gold project near Flin Flon. This is the recommendation of the recent preliminary economic assessment of the project.

Bottoms Up

"Sight Unseen" could easily be Cementation Canada’s motto because most of the work the company does is underground. In fact, for the past 14 years, the vast majority of the engineering and contracting projects the company has undertaken...

One of a Kind

Primary palladium producers are rare undertakings. There are only two in the world. One belongs to Toronto’s North American Palladium. NAP’s Lac des Iles mine lies 85 km northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., and is the target of expansion...

Moving Ahead

Wesdome Gold’s Eagle River gold mine is located 50 km due west of Wawa, and 65 km southeast of the Hemlo property featured in the previous article. It is perched on the Algoma Plateau about 310 m above Lake Superior…

Triple Play

There are only a handful of mines in Ontario with a history as deep and rich as Goldcorp’s Red Lake Gold Mines, located about 350 km northwest of Thunder Bay, near the Ontario/Manitoba border.

Hemlo Shines

Barrick Gold Corporation’s Hemlo mines are located about a 30-minute drive east of the Town of Marathon on the north shore of Lake Superior 350 km east of Thunder Bay.

B.C. mining museum wins awards for restoration work

The Britannia Mine Museum of Britannia Beach, B.C. (near Squamish on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, about an hour from Vancouver) has received two prestigious awards for the $14.7-million restoration of the museum’s heritage site.

Mining in Ontario: Companies take SCR to heart

Almost every mining company in Ontario is a partner in society. In fact, it would be very difficult to find a mining company anywhere in the province that doesn’t care about the community where it’s located. They do more than…

AWARDS: Britannia Mine Museum lauded by BCMA and AME BC

BRITISH COLUMBIA - The Britannia Mine Museum at Britannia Beach has won not one, but two, prestigious awards of excellence. The first is the coveted Award for Social and Environmental Responsibility from the Association for Mineral Exploration...