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GOLD: Over 2.7 kg/tonne drilled near Timmins

ONTARIO – There is gold – pots and pots of gold – in Timmins if the recent drill results from the Ogden project are anything to go by. The highest assay returned was 2,732.6 g/t over 0.93 metres within a 12.53-metre section...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 22, 2013 | 4:19 pm

VANADIUM: Canadian miner jumps on battery wagon

VANCOUVER – American Vanadium, sole owner of the Gibellini vanadium-zinc-nickel development project in Nevada, is branching out by signing an exclusive agreement with Gildemeister to market and sell the German company's CellCube vanadium...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 22, 2013 | 4:17 pm

ENVIRONMENTAL: BioteQ to pilot selenium removal process

BRITISH COLUMBIA – BioteQ Environmental Technologies of Vancouver has secured a contract from Teck Resources to conduct a pilot scale test of the innovative new Selen-IX™ for selenium removal. BioteQ will build, operate and run the...

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

TRAINING: Coal stockpile operations made safer by Immersive Technologies

AUSTRALIA – In recent years the demand for dozer operators working on coal stockpiles has grown dramatically, increasing the need for specialized training in what is considered one of the most hazardous environments for dozer operators....

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 22, 2013 | 4:04 pm

Aureus updates New Liberty’s feasibility study

Aureus Mining (AUE-T, AUE-L) has updated a definitive feasibility study for its fully permitted New Liberty gold project in northwestern Liberia, confirming promising economics for what could become the country’s first commercial gold...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 22, 2013 | 4:01 pm

GRAPHITE: Torch River to buy former Walker mine

QUEBEC – Torch River Resources of Oakville, ON, is planning to acquire the past producing Walker lump graphite mine. The property, active from 1890 through 1920, is located between Montreal and Ottawa. About 800 tonnes of lump graphite...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 21, 2013 | 4:06 pm

PHOSPHATE: Lac a Paul pilot test confirms 90% recovery

QUEBEC – Pilot-scale testing of ore from the Lac a Paul phosphate deposit in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region has made a 39% P2O5 product with 90% recovery, according to project owner Arianne Phosphate of Saguenay, QC. The flowsheet relies...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 21, 2013 | 4:04 pm

MINING PEOPLE: Cline Mining, Great Quest, Northern Gold, and Strikepoint Gold

Cline Mining Corp. of Toronto has named Mark Haywood executive chairman of the board following the resignation of former chairman Hon. Bill McKnight.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 21, 2013 | 4:02 pm

Investors send Xstrata execs packing at first Glencore Xstrata AGM

VANCOUVER – The merged Glencore Xstrata PLC (GLEN-L) was supposed to bear a board with directors from both predecessor companies, part of the attempt to portray the deal as a merger of equals instead of a takeover of Xstrata.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 21, 2013 | 4:00 pm

ZINC-COPPER: Production begins at Bracemac-McLeod

QUEBEC – Production has begun at the Bracemac-McLeod base metal mine near Matagami at an average rate of 3,000 t/d. The mine is a joint venture of Donner Metals (35%) of Vancouver and Glencore Xstrata (65% and operator).

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 16, 2013 | 3:58 pm

GOLD: New Gold unwinds hedges at Mesquite

CALIFORNIA – New Gold of Vancouver has eliminated the legacy gold hedges associated with the 2008 project financing for its Mesquite heap leach gold mine in Imperial County. The company said that it repaid the loan in 2010, four years...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 16, 2013 | 3:56 pm

COPPER-GOLD: Woodjam resources expand

BRITISH COLUMBIA – Gold Fields Horsefly Exploration Corp., a subsidiary of Gold Fields Ltd., has updated the resources at the Woodjam copper-gold project 55 km east of Williams Lake. The copper content at the Southeast zone has increased...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 16, 2013 | 3:54 pm

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