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COMMENT: Ontario invests in skills training for Ring of Fire projects

The [Ontario] provincial government's recent announcement of a $3.1 million investment to provide skills training and community governance and capacity building in six First Nations communities is welcome news. This investment will facilitate...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 21, 2013 | 4:36 pm

GOLD: New zone at Garrcon yields bonanza grades

ONTARIO – Toronto-based Northern Gold Mining has discovered a 600-metre long high grade zone within the Garrcon gold deposit 100 km east of Timmins. Hole 12-244 assayed 58.97 g/t Au over 1.0 metre, and hole 12-263 assayed 94.77 g/t Au...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 21, 2013 | 4:35 pm

NICKEL-COPPER-PGE: Junior Lake indicated tonnage jumps to 2.7 million at 1.24% NiEq

ONTARIO – Landore Resources of Thunder Bay, ON, says last year's drilling on the B4-7 deposit at its Junior Lake property near Armstrong has increased the combined pit and underground resource to 2.69 million tonnes grading 1.24% NiEq...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 21, 2013 | 4:33 pm

CONTRACT: Northern Graphite awards Bissett Creek FEED study

ONTARIO - Northern Graphite Corp. of Ottawa has awarded a $3.5-million contract for the front end engineering and design (FEED) for its Bissett Creek graphite project 100 km east of North Bay to a joint venture of Porcupine Engineering Services...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 21, 2013 | 4:31 pm

FACTS & FIGURES: World interest in Canada’s minerals at record high: MAC report

OTTAWA - World interest in Canadian minerals and metals reached a record high in 2011 as measured by exploration spending, according to the Mining Association of Canada's (MAC) new Facts & Figures 2012 report. Exploration investment in...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 21, 2013 | 4:29 pm

Ivanplats doubles world-class copper resource at Kamoa

VANCOUVER — Robert Friedland's latest Vancouver-based venture looks to be following a familiar template. On Jan. 17 Ivanplats released an updated resource on its Kamoa discovery in Central Africa that boosted the project's resources by...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 21, 2013 | 4:24 pm

DIAMONDS: Roadblock for Ekati acquisition

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – The deal for Harry Winston Diamond Corp. to buy out BHP Billiton's interest in the Ekati diamond mine at Lac des Gras has hit a roadblock. Minority owner Chuck Fipke, who along with Stuart Blusson discovered the...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 17, 2013 | 4:40 pm

POTASH: Resources outlined at Foam Lake

SASKATCHEWAN – North Atlantic Potash of Saskatoon has complete a 11-hole drilling program and released resource numbers for its Foam Lake potash property a hundred kilometres or so northeast of Regina. The company has outlined 218 million...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 17, 2013 | 4:36 pm

GOLD: High grades drilled near Platosa silver mine

MEXICO – Excellon Resources of Toronto, perhaps the highest grade silver producer in the country, is having considerable success drilling for gold only a kilometre from its Platosa silver mine in Durango state. Hole LP1038 intersected...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 17, 2013 | 4:29 pm

MINING PEOPLE: Estrella Gold, Gowest Gold, Precipitate Gold, Rio Tinto and Strongco

Estrella Gold Corp. of Vancouver has named John R. Wilson president and CEO. His 40-plus-year career includes discoveries in Brazil, Nevada and Peru.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 17, 2013 | 4:19 pm

CONTRACT: SNC-Lavalin to handle EPCM for lonore gold project

QUEBEC – SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a contract by Goldcorp subsidiary Opinaca Mines to provide project management, detailed engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the Éléonore gold...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 17, 2013 | 4:15 pm

Kivalliq stacks uranium resources at Angilak

VANCOUVER — It has been roughly three years since Vancouver-based uranium explorer Kivalliq Energy began drilling in earnest at its 1,377-km2 Angilak property in Nunavut. The company long maintained it was looking at a district scale play...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 17, 2013 | 4:09 pm

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