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AWARD: NWOPA bestows discovery of the year on Sunday Lake platinum find

THUNDER BAY, Ontario – The Northwest Ontario Prospectors Association has awarded the Bernie Schneiders Discovery of the Year Award to Transition Metals and Impala Platinum Holdings for their Sunday Lake platinum discovery. The...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 9, 2014 | 4:24 pm

MINING PEOPLE: Laramide Resources, Laurentian Goldfields, Maple Leaf Resource, and Victory Mountain

Toronto-based Laramide Resources has named Bryn Jones its COO. He will lead the development of the company's Westmoreland uranium project in Australia.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 9, 2014 | 4:21 pm

Tilk to replace Doyle as PotashCorp’s CEO

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX: POT; NYSE: POT) recently surprised analysts after revealing that its long time president and CEO Bill Doyle will be replaced in July by mining veteran Jochen Tilk, who has apparently no potash or fertilizer...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 9, 2014 | 4:20 pm

GOLD: Osisko reports record high Q1 production, falling costs

QUEBEC – Osisko Mining Corp. of Montreal has reported record first quarter gold production of 140,029 oz of gold from its Canadian Malartic mine in the town of Malartic.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 8, 2014 | 3:41 pm

RAILROAD: Province to support Ontario Northland

TORONTO – Last week the Ontario government announced that that the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission will stay in public hands. That ended two years of uncertainty for commission employees living in North Bay, ON. The ONTC...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 8, 2014 | 3:38 pm

GOLD: Goliath gives up high grades for Treasury Metals

ONTARIO – Treasury Metals of Toronto continues to drill its Goliath gold project near Dryden, and the work is being rewarded with high grade assays.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 8, 2014 | 3:37 pm

Primero aims to turn around Black Fox

Primero Mining (TSX: P; NYSE: PPP) is using the turnaround strategy that it applied to its San Dimas underground gold-silver mine in Mexico to its recently acquired Black Fox gold mine near Timmins, ON, where it aims for another success story.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 8, 2014 | 3:36 pm

COMMENT: One dead, one injured at Sudbury smelter

An accident at 6:30 pm on April 6 at Vale's Copper Cliff smelter has killed one man and severely injured another while they were working in the casting/crushing plant.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 7, 2014 | 4:14 pm

AWARD: CMJ honoured as an exceptional mining industry resource

TORONTO – Canadian Mining Journal has been featured alongside a host of other exceptional online resources on mining, geology and mineral exploration that was released on GeologyDegree.org this week. The collection highlights...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 7, 2014 | 4:10 pm

PHILANTHROPY: Rio Tinto donates its share of Pebble gold project to Alaskan charities

ALASKA – Following a strategic review, Rio Tinto has decided that its participation in the Pebble copper-gold project 380 km from Anchorage no longer fits its business plan. Rio Tinto holds a 19.1% of Vancouver-based Northern Dynasty...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 7, 2014 | 4:08 pm

CASTING CALL: Miners wanted for Ice Cold Gold

Animal Planet is back with its show Ice Cold Gold, spotlighting a spirited team of miners who are among the first Americans to prospect for precious metals and gems in parts of Greenland where humans never have set foot before!

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 7, 2014 | 4:06 pm

Dominion forges ahead at Ekati and Diavik

Dominion Diamond (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC) may have missed the Street's expectations due to some accounting rules, but the company showed it is steadily restoring the prominence of Canada's first diamond mine: Ekati.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 7, 2014 | 4:04 pm

MERGER: Goldcorp continues due dilligence

QUEBEC – Vancouver-based Goldcorp is doing its due diligence at the Canadian Malartic gold mine in anticipation of a successful hostile takeover of owner Osisko Mining Corp. Goldcorp's announcement comes a day after Osisko and Yamana Gold...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 3, 2014 | 3:44 pm

Fraser Institute argues mineral rights transfer to First Nations could avoid land claims issues, better attract private investment

CALGARY—Providing aboriginal groups across Canada with mineral rights could avoid land claims issues and better attract private investment in the mining sector, according to a Fraser Institute report.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | April 3, 2014 | 3:42 pm

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