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TRAINING: Trevali and First Nations launch core mining program in New Brunswick

NEW BRUNSWICK - Trevali Mining of Vancouver has thrown its support behind the recently launched First Nations Underground Core Mining Training Program, the first of its kind in the province, offered by the New Brunswick Community College in...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 17, 2012 | 5:00 pm

YEAR END RESULTS: Good news for all types of miners

It's not just the gold producers who are reporting positive fourth quarter and 2011 year end results. The news releases reaching CMJ in the past week include base metal miners, diamond miners and more. Here is look at a few of the notable...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 17, 2012 | 4:59 pm

ABORIGINAL RELATIONS: Quadra FNX, First Nation sign agreement covering Victoria project

ONTARIO - Vancouver-based Quadra FNX and the Sagamok Anishnawbeck First Natation have signed a memorandum of understanding with regard to the Victoria nickel-copper project near Sudbury. The agreement forms part of the environmental permitting...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 17, 2012 | 4:58 pm

SCHOLARSHIPS: Endeavour Silver commits $1-M to Queen’s and UBC

VANCOUVER - Bradford Cooke, chairman and CEO of Vancouver-based Endeavour Silver, says his company has initiated two $500,000, five-year scholarship programs for the earth sciences at the University of British Columbia and at Queen's University...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 17, 2012 | 4:57 pm

MINING HALL OF FAME: Overflow crowd greets inductees

TORONTO - An overflow crowd at the 24th Annual Canadian Mining Hall of Fame Induction Dinner, held Jan. 12, 2012, welcomed five new inductees - Ned Goodman, Phillip Hallof, John Hansuld and joint inductees Robert Hunter and Robert Dickenson....

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 16, 2012 | 5:00 pm

INFRASTRUCTURE: Power line coming to Maverick gold project

MANITOBA - Auriga Gold of Toronto has signed a service agreement with Manitoba Hydro to provide electric grid power to Auriga's Maverick gold project near Flin Flon. The cost of the sub-station and running the power line from Sherridon to the...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 16, 2012 | 4:59 pm

GOLD EXPLORATION: Seabee L62 zone yields 195.06 g/t Au

SASKATCHEWAN - Claude Resources of Saskatoon reported recent drilling results from the L62 discovery as high as 195.06 g/t Au over a true width of 2.29 metres from hole U11-651 at the Seabee gold mine 125 km northeast of La Ronge. The drilling...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 16, 2012 | 4:58 pm

BY THE NUMBERS: How many projects are owned by Canadian mining companies?

From our friends at PricewaterhouseCoopers in a recent issue of "PwC Capital Markets Flash: Last One Standing?" come some interesting numbers:

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 16, 2012 | 4:57 pm

PHOSPHATE STUDY: New report gives Lac a Paul project excellent potential

QUEBEC - With the recent filing of the 43-101 report and pre-feasibility study for its Lac a Paul phosphate project in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean area, owner Arianne Resources of Chicoutimi, QC, is contemplating the production of a 38% P2O5...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 12, 2012 | 5:00 pm

GOLD MINING: More records set at St Andrew, Osisko

ONTARIO and QUEBEC - Toronto-based St Andrew Goldfields produced a record amount of gold in Q4 2011 The 22,350 oz of gold is a 12% increase from Q3. The company operates the Holt, Holloway and Hislop mines in the Kirkland Lake region of Ontario.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 12, 2012 | 4:59 pm

MINERAL PROCESSING: Simpler flowsheet increases economics for NICO plant

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES - Fortune Minerals of London, ON, says the results of a mini-pilot plant test conducted on ore from its NICO gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper project near Mazenod Lake, NT, point toward a simplified flowsheet and improved...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 12, 2012 | 4:58 pm

MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Prism Resources, Richmont Mines and Toromont

Robert Baxter is the new president and CEO of Vancouver-based Prism Resources. His appointment follows the resignation of Scott M. Ross.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 12, 2012 | 4:57 pm

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