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Quest kicks off mini-pilot plant for Strange Lake

Quest Rare Minerals, which owns the Strange Lake rare earth deposit in northern Quebec, recently held a tour of its mini-pilot plant at Process Research Ortech in Mississauga, ON, where it’s testing the solvent extraction circuit before...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 11, 2013 | 4:00 pm

BASE METALS & COAL: Teck reports 2012 numbers

VANCOUVER – Teck Resources says that both revenues and gross profits slipped slightly in 2012. Revenues across all business units – coal, copper, zinc and energy were $10.34 billion last year, compared to $11.51 billion in 2011, a...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 7, 2013 | 4:17 pm

LITHIUM: Nemaska gives green light to lithium hydroxide plant

QUEBEC – Nemaska Lithium of Quebec City has given the go ahead to phase one of a 500-t/y lithium hydroxide and carbonate process facility in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. The $25-million budget was prepared by Met-Chem Canada to cover...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 7, 2013 | 4:15 pm

IRON ORE: Fire Lake PFS has $3.3 billion NPV and 30.9% IRR for West and East deposits

QUEBEC – Champion Iron Mines of Toronto says the pre-feasibility study for the West and East deposits at its Consolidated Fire Lake North project points toward a net present value (8% discount) of $3.30 billion and a pre-tax internal rate...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 7, 2013 | 4:14 pm

CORRECTION: World-beating alumina technology from Orbite

Several errors occurred in the original story of Feb. 5, 2013. Below is the corrected version.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 7, 2013 | 4:09 pm

MONITOR: Instantel Micromate checks vibration and overpressure

KANATA, Ontario - Instantel’s Micromate™, a low-cost four-channel unit, is designed to monitor and transmit event data with one triaxial geophone and one air overpressure microphone. The Micromate has been designed to withstand the...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 7, 2013 | 4:07 pm

McEwen grows Los Azules copper count

VANCOUVER – With 10 drill holes McEwen Mining has boosted the copper resource at its Los Azules project in Argentina by 20% compared to the last estimate just eight months ago, and the huge deposit remains open in every direction.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 7, 2013 | 4:04 pm

IRON ORE: Northern Iron dewatering Griffith pit

ONTARIO – Northern Iron Corp. of Vancouver has completed the winter dewatering program at the Griffith mine near Ear Falls, removing 4.0 billion litres of water from the former iron mine. Pumping will resume with the spring thaw...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 6, 2013 | 4:00 pm

COPPER-GOLD: Kwanika project shows $263 million NPV

BRITISH COLUMBIA – The preliminary economic assessment for the Kwanika copper-gold project of Vancouver's Serengeti Resources found a pre-tax net present value (5% discount) of $263 million and a 13.4% internal rate of return. The...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 6, 2013 | 3:59 pm

GOLD: Silver Wheaton buys part of by-product stream from Vale

VANCOUVER – Silver Wheaton has agreed to buy 70% of the payable gold by-product stream from mines belonging to Vale SA, including the Coleman, Copper Cliff, Creighton, Garson, Stobie, Totten and Victor mines near Sudbury, ON, for 20...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 6, 2013 | 3:57 pm

Canadian Mining Hall of Fame welcomes four more

Four new inductees boasting outstanding achievements in the diverse fields of diamonds, gold, uranium and copper, joined the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in the twenty-fifth annual ceremony in Toronto on Jan. 10.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 6, 2013 | 3:51 pm

COMMENT: World-beating alumina technology from Orbite

This article originally contained several errors. Please click here to read the corrected version.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 5, 2013 | 4:33 pm

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