OIL SANDS: Suncor drops Voyageur upgrader
ALBERTA – Word has come down from Suncor's head office in Calgary that the company will not be proceeding with the $1-billion Voyageur upgrader project.
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LABOUR: USW, Vale ink new collective agreement
ONTARIO – The members of USW Local 2020-05 have ratified a new four-year collective agreement with Vale at its Sudbury operations. The agreement comes into effect on April 1, 2013.
STUDY: Pipeline of new mining projects drying up
HALIFAX – SNL Metals Economics Group has published its latest pipeline activity index for the mining industry, and the outlook is far from rosy. The PAI reached a three-year low in February. Equally alarming is that it declined 43% since...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Astur Gold, Aegean Metals, Lucara, and San Gold
Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore has become a director of Vancouver-based Astur Gold. The company is in the permitting stage of an underground mine at the Salave gold project in northern Spain. Moore has been a leader in the field of...
BOOK: Redpath – the First Half-Century 1962-2012
NORTH BAY, Ontario - To commemorate its 50th anniversary in 2012, the Redpath Group commissioned a book to share its story of becoming a truly global mine contracting and engineering firm. Several years in the making, the result is a large and...
Patterson Lake discovery triggers junior uranium frenzy
VANCOUVER — Nothing draws Canadian explorers quite like an emerging mineral discovery that looks to have district scale potential, and that is proving to be the case with Fission Energy (FIS-V) and Alpha Minerals (AMW-V) Patterson Lake...
GOLD-COPPER-ZINC: Hudbay declares commercial production at Lalor
MANITOBA – Hudbay Minerals of Toronto has declared the first phase of commercial production at its Lalor gold-copper-zinc mine near Snow Lake. Starting next month, Lalor output is expected to contribute positively to the company's bottom...
COPPER: New numbers for Foran’s McIlvenna Bay
SASKATCHEWAN – Mineral resources are growing at the McIlvenna Bay copper-zinc deposit at Hanson Lake, 60 km west of Flin Flon, MB. Owner Foran Mining Corp. of Vancouver says the indicated tonnage is up 15% and the inferred category up 18%.
DIAMONDS: Dominion completes sale of Harry Winston brand
TORONTO - Dominion Diamond Corp. has completed the previously announced sale of its luxury brand diamond jewelry and timepiece division, Harry Winston, to The Swatch Group Ltd.
COAL: Coalspur and CN sign transport deal
ALBERTA – Coalspur Mines of Calgary and CN have signed an agreement for the transportation of thermal coal from Coalspur's Vista project near Hinton to Ridley Terminals on the Pacific coast. The agreement is for seven years beginning on...
OIL SANDS: Suncor spill halted
ALBERTA – Industrial wastewater from a pipe that froze and broke at the Suncor oil sands project near Fort McMurray may have reached the Athabasca River. The leak was detected early on March 25, and it was stopped by 4 pm the same...
Argonaut’s commitment to cost control drives success
VANCOUVER — As many gold producers are plagued by rising operating costs and shrinking profit margins, Reno-based producer Argonaut Gold (AR-T) has proven to be an exception to the norm. Though the company boosted year-on-year gold...
First Phosphate update expands EV battery ingredient by four times in Quebec
A resource update for First Phosphate’s (CSE: PHOS; US-OTC: FRSPF) main Bégin-Lamarche project in northeastern Quebec has boosted the indicated tonnage more […]