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SUSTAINABILITY: Teck, Kinross listed on DJSI

VANCOUVER and TORONTO: Teck Resources and Kinross Gold have been listed on the 2013 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), as has Barrick Gold as reported last week.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 16, 2013 | 4:18 pm

SILVER: Endeavour boosts guidance 20%

MEXICO – Vancouver-based Endeavour Silver Corp. is raising its 2013 guidance for silver production by 20% to 6.0 million oz. The company has three producing underground mines – Guanacevi mine in Durango state and the Bolanitos and...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 16, 2013 | 4:17 pm

COPPER-GOLD: Anglo pulls out of Pebble project

ALASKA – Anglo American plc of London, UK, is pulling out of the Pebble copper-gold project 300 km from Anchorage. The Pebble Limited Partnership created in 2007 to develop the property now becomes 100% owned by Northern Dynasty Minerals...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 16, 2013 | 4:15 pm

PNG Gold hits more high grade at Imwauna

VANCOUVER – Every time drills probe the main Imwauna vein system at PNG Gold's (TSXV: PGK) Normanby project in Papua New Guinea they return high grade gold from a steeply dipping structure that is narrow but easy to access because a...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 16, 2013 | 4:12 pm

OPINION: Transnational corporate liability for human rights violations, part 2

Part 1 of this discussion appeared in CMJ's Sept. 11 Daily Headline News.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 12, 2013 | 4:11 pm

URANIUM: Eco Ridge review raises production of REO, U3O8

ONTARIO – Pele Mountain Resources of Toronto has updated the preliminary economic assessment of its Eco Ridge rare earths and uranium project in Elliot Lake, raising output estimates for both products. Rare earth oxides (REO) would total...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 12, 2013 | 4:01 pm

SUSTAINABILITY: Barrick named to DJSI for the sixth consecutive year

TORONTO – Barrick Gold Corp. has been named to the Down Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI) for the sixth consecutive year. It has also been included on the DJSI's North American index of leading companies for the seventh straight...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 12, 2013 | 4:00 pm

MINING PEOPLE: China Minerals, McEwen Mining, Orex, San Gold, and Santa Fe Metals

Michael Guo has been named chief geologist for Vancouver-based China Minerals Mining Corp. He will oversee the company's geological work in Canada.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 12, 2013 | 3:58 pm

LABOUR: It’s Curtin for Australian prisoners

AUSTRALIA – Failing to find workers for the Curtin potash project, the joint venture partners have recruited prisoners from the Northern Territory. The project, 260 km southwest of Alice Springs, is a joint venture of Rum Jungle Resources...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 12, 2013 | 3:56 pm

Production is right around the corner for Marlin Gold

It’s not every day that you come across a junior that is on the brink of production and generating cash flow within four to six months, whose largest shareholder is a hedge fund with an 80% ownership stake, whose management team is headed...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 12, 2013 | 3:54 pm

OPINION: Transnational corporate liability for human rights violations, part 1

Can a Canadian parent company with a subsidiary operating in a foreign jurisdiction be liable for human rights violations in the foreign jurisdiction that occur at the level of the subsidiary? In a recent decision, an Ontario court has allowed...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 11, 2013 | 4:27 pm

URANIUM: Denison cuts more high grade at Phoenix A

SASKATCHEWAN – Denison Mines Corp. of Toronto continues to drill high grade uranium mineralization in the Phoenix A deposit at the Wheeler River project where it is operator and 60% owner. The Wheeler River project is located between the...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 11, 2013 | 4:26 pm

COAL: Maiden numbers for Elan’s Alberta coking project

ALBERTA – Altitude Resources of Calgary has released a maiden resource estimate – 62.1 million indicated tonnes and 84.7 million inferred tonnes – for the coking coal property belonging to Elan Coal, a private non-arms length...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 11, 2013 | 4:24 pm

GOLD: Atac cuts 16+ metres of 6.76 g/t at Rackla project

YUKON – Vancouver-based Atac Resources has completed a 12-hole campaign at the Sunrise and Isis East zones at the eastern end of its Rackla gold project in the central portion of the territory. The Sunrise zone returned notable...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 11, 2013 | 4:22 pm

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