ONTARIO – The winter drilling program conducted by Toronto-based KWG Resources at the Black Horse chromite deposit in the Ring of Fire successfully expanded the inferred resource. An east-west trending gravity anomaly was also drilled….
ONTARIO – KWG Resources of Toronto says it is encouraged by the results of recent laboratory tests using natural gas to reduce the chromite ore from the Black Horse deposit in the Ring of Fire. The new method shows promise for the…
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – Micon has completed the updated feasibility study for the NICO gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper project using lower commodity prices. The project, located 160 km northwest of Yellowknife, is 100% owned by Fortune…
QUEBEC – The government of Quebec has offered a $2.5-million interest free loan to help build a pilot plant to confirm the economic viability of a new technology for producing magnesium. Alliance Magnesium will built the facility near…
TORONTO – Hudbay Minerals has finished 2013 with a loss of $109.3 million, or $0.59 per share. The previous year, the company experienced a loss of $23.5 million or $0.12 per share. Revenue totaled $516.8 million in 2013, compared to…
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – Fortune Minerals of London, ON, has received the staging (interim) land use permit for the NICO mine from the Wek’èezhìi Land and Water Board. The mine site is 160 km northwest of Yellowknife, near…
EDMONTON, AB: Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers announces the sale of more than CA$60 million of equipment and trucks at its unreserved public auction in Edmonton last week. More than 3,750 equipment items and trucks were sold in the two-day…
NEW BRUNSWICK – Geodex Minerals, headquartered in Vancouver, has received a grant of $40,000 from the New Brunswick Department of Energy and Mines to help cover the cost of drilling at the company’s South Dungarvon tin and Benjamin…
QUEBEC – Argex Titanium of Montreal has begun preliminary engineering work with vendors for the longest lead time items for its commercial sized titanium dioxide facility in Valleyfield.
Cliffs Natural Resources, the American miner that was so hot to gain control of chromite deposits in Ontario’s Ring of Fire, is packing up and going home.
QUEBEC – Canada Lithium Corp. of Toronto says its Quebec lithium project 60 km north of Val d’Or has reached an important milestone – continuous production of lithium carbonate. Previously, production had been achieved only in batch…
BRITISH COLUMBIA – Vancouver-based Avanti Mining has arranged a pre-construction loan worth US$40 million with Resource Capital Fund VI. The purpose of the loan is to provide the company with working capital for the Kitsault molybdenum…