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OIL SANDS: Honeywell to automate Fort Hills project

ALBERTA – Honeywell Process Solutions has been selected by Suncor Energy to provide automation systems for a new multi-billion-dollar Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta. Honeywell will supply technology to integrate the site’s...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 17, 2014 | 3:44 pm

Great expectations for Seabridge at KSM

Seabridge Gold’s (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) chairman and CEO Rudi Fronk says the company anticipates strong drill results from the exploration program that it recently launched at the KSM gold-copper project in northwestern British Columbia.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 17, 2014 | 3:43 pm

COMMENT: Commodity expert sees Ontario minerals ascending

Commodity expert Patricia Mohr told miners that global economic forces indicate improvement in markets for Ontario minerals. Mohr, Scotiabank VP of economics and commodity market specialist, was the featured speaker at an Ontario Mining...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 16, 2014 | 3:52 pm

URANIUM: More shallow, high grade hits from Patterson Lake South

SASKATCHEWAN – Fission Uranium Corp. of Kelowna, BC, has even more shallow, high grade intersections from winter drilling at its Patterson Lake South (PLS) project on the western edge of the Athabasca Basin. The property is located about...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 16, 2014 | 3:50 pm

GOLD: Agnico Eagle, Yamana complete acquisition of Osisko shares

TORONTO – Agnico Eagle Mines and Yamana Gold completed the arrangement by which they jointly acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Osisko Mining Corp. of Montreal.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 16, 2014 | 3:47 pm

GOLD: Centerra receives Kumtor approval

KYRGYZ REPUBLIC – Centerra Gold of Toronto in finally in receipt of the 2014 Kumtor mine plan approvals from the relevant government agencies.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 16, 2014 | 3:46 pm

URANIUM: Uranerz makes first resin shipment to Cameco’s Smith Ranch plant

WYOMING – Uranerz Energy Corp. of Casper, WY, has made its first shipment of uranium-loaded resin from its Nichols Ranch in situ recovery (ISR) project in the Powder River Basin. The shipment went by truck to the Smith Ranch processing...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 16, 2014 | 3:43 pm

Petra Diamonds recovers 122.52 carat blue diamond

The Cullinan diamond mine at the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountain range, 37 km northeast of Pretoria in South Africa, is one of the world’s most celebrated diamond mines.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 16, 2014 | 3:39 pm

GOLD: Monument Bay expands for Mega Precious

MANITOBA – Mega Precious Metals of Thunder Bay, ON, is looking at expanded high grade gold-tungsten structures in the Twin Lakes deposit at its Monument Bay property 340 km southeast of Thompson. The good news comes with the...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 12, 2014 | 4:12 pm

URANIUM: Strateco locks the doors at Matoush camp

QUEBEC – Unable to secure the final permit needed to start advanced exploration at the Matoush uranium project, Strateco Resources has announced that it will shut down the camp. The facility, in the Otish Mountains, has been on standby...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 12, 2014 | 4:11 pm

GOLD-PGM: Platinum Group boosts Waterberg resources to 29 million oz Pl-Pd-Rh-Au

SOUTH AFRICA – Platinum Group Metals of Vancouver, the operator and 49% owner of the Waterberg joint venture and adjacent Waterberg Extension in the Bushveld Complex, has added up the ounces of four precious metals and says they total 29...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 12, 2014 | 4:09 pm

MINING PEOPLE: Altius, Geodex, Global Minerals, Globex, Northern Gold, Orbite, and Orvana

Altius Minerals of St. John's, NL, reports that its current chairman John Baker has agreed to accept the newly created full time position of executive chairman, effective June 30, 2014. Baker was a co-founder of the company in 1997 and has been...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 12, 2014 | 4:06 pm

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