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GOLD: High grades extended at Lower Detour Lake

ONTARIO – Toronto-based Detour Gold Corp. reports that eight diamond drill holes have confirmed the continuity of high grade gold mineralization in the Lower Detour Lake area, about 6 km south of the Detour Lake gold mine in northern...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 29, 2015 | 4:13 pm

GOLD: Determination possible at ppb level at drilling site, no long waits

ADELAIDE, South Australia – Researchers at the University of Adelaide's Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing have developed a portable method for detecting trace amounts of gold in ore samples on-site at the drill...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 29, 2015 | 4:10 pm

Mines Management reaches milestone at Montanore

It’s taken more than a decade, but Mines Management (TSX: MGT; NYSE: MGN) believes it is finally on the brink of pushing its Montanore project in northwestern Montana past the permitting finishing line. The United States Forest...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 29, 2015 | 4:08 pm

CHROMITE: Noront’s Ring of Fire purchase closes

ONTARIO – Noront Resources' buyout of the Ontario assets of Cliffs Natural Resources has closed, but not without controversy and only after the intervention of the court. Toronto-based Noront offered US$20 million last month for Cliffs'...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 28, 2015 | 3:50 pm

IRON ORE: Penguin Lake tests creates clean, 65% Fe concentrate

QUEBEC – Metallurgical tests carried out on samples of mineralized material from the Penguin Lake project resulted in a clean, 65.3% Fe concentrate. The Penguin Lake project, in the southern Labrador Trough, is owned by Champion Iron and...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 28, 2015 | 3:48 pm

GOLD: Premier to drill Hasaga property

ONTARIO – Thunder Bay, ON-based Premier Gold Mines has begun diamond drilling on its 100% owned Hasaga gold property near Red Lake. The property was acquired earlier this year in an asset swap with Goldcorp. The Hasaga property has three...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 28, 2015 | 3:46 pm

AWARD: Fasken Martineau named global mining law firm of 2015

TORONTO – Fasken Martineau, a leading international business law and litigation firm, announced today that it has been awarded global Mining Law Firm of the Year for 2015 by Who's Who Legal. This is the seventh time that Fasken Martineau...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 28, 2015 | 3:38 pm

Yamana expands footprint via $17.5M Mega Precious bid

VANCOUVER — Producer Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY) is hoping to further expand its presence in Canada with a $17.5-million cash and shares agreement for explorer Mega Precious Metals (TSXV: MGP) and its 338...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 28, 2015 | 3:37 pm

GOLD: TMAC calls Hope Bay PFS ‘robust’

NUNAVUT – TMAC Resources of Toronto is calling the recently completed pre-feasibility study on the Hope Bay gold project "robust". The company says the study proposes sequential development and underground mining of three known deposits...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 27, 2015 | 4:04 pm

GOLD: Eastmain releases resource update for Eau Claire deposit

QUEBEC – Toronto-based Eastmain Resources has released new resource numbers for its Eau Claire gold deposit. The deposit is part of the Clearwater project in the James Bay region. The company says the numbers make Eau Claire "one of the...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 27, 2015 | 4:03 pm

GOLD: Montan to acquire toll mill for for small scale miners

PERU – Peru is striving mightily to formalize the activities of small scale miners in that country with the aim of strengthening their the environmental, safety and fiscal practices. Taking advantage of that support, Montan Mining Corp....

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 27, 2015 | 4:02 pm

KICKSTARTER: U of T instructors seek funds for Ring of Fire research

TORONTO – In early April, Shadi Ramos and Fionn Byrne, two Landscape Architecture instructors from the University of Toronto, launched a 40 day Kickstarter campaign for research on the Ring of Fire.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 27, 2015 | 4:01 pm

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