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PERSPECTIVE: Metals, minerals shortage to hit manufacturing

Research conducted by PwC of Montreal has found that 77% of manufacturing industries consider scarcity of metals and minerals a pressing issue. Seven industries will be most impacted: infrastructure, high tech hardware, automotive, renewable...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 11, 2012 | 5:00 pm

COPPER EXPANSION: Gibraltar mine, mill increase on track for year-end start

BRITISH COLUMBIA - The expansion of the Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine and mill to 185 million lb of copper annually is on track for completion by the end of 2012. The project, located 65 km north of Williams Lake, is owned by Taseko Mines...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 11, 2012 | 4:59 pm

GOLD MINING: Aurizon posts record gold output

VANCOUVER - Aurizon Mines posted record gold output during 2011 - 163,845 oz, up 16% over 2010 - and it plans to produce between 155,000 and 160,000 oz of gold this year. Its flagship asset is the Casa Berardi mine 95 km north of La Sarre, QC.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 11, 2012 | 4:58 pm

GEOCHEMISTRY: SGS testing certified ISO/IEC 17025

TORONTO - The geochemical laboratory of SGS Mineral Services has extended its scope of accredited tests certified to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025. The certification includes the company's proprietary MMITM (mobile metal ion) methodology,...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 11, 2012 | 4:57 pm

GOLD MINING: San Gold, Timmins Gold set quarterly production records

MANITOBA and ONTARIO - Two of Canada's smaller gold miners, San Gold of Winnipeg and Timmins Gold of Vancouver, have reached record levels of gold ounces produced during the last quarter of 2011.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 10, 2012 | 5:00 pm

GOLD-COPPER STUDY: Abacus files Ajax feasibility

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Abacus Mining and Exploration of Vancouver has filed its feasibility study for the Ajax gold-copper mine 10 km southwest of Kamloops. The study supports a 60,000-t/d open pit mine and conventional concentrator that would...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 10, 2012 | 4:59 pm

MINING MORATORIUM: US to protect 405,000 hectares near Grand Canyon

ARIZONA - U.S. Interior Secretary has decided to withdraw public lands near the Grand Canyon from new mining claims for two decades. The move was met by cheers from environmentalists and jeers from Republicans who accuse the ruling Democrats of...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 10, 2012 | 4:58 pm

MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Bellhaven, Copper North, Edgewater Exploration, Matamec and Queenston

Vancouver-based Bellhaven Copper & Gold has named Patrick Highsmith CEO and director. He has degrees in geological engineering and geochemistry from the Colorado School of Mines and is the COO of Lithium One. Interim CEO Pal Szweng has...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 10, 2012 | 4:57 pm

ACQUISITION: Teck to expand oil sands interests with takeover of SilverBirch

VANCOUVER and CALGARY - Teck Resources of Vancouver has made an offer for Calgary-based SilverBirch Energy Corp. SilverBirch shareholders are to receive $8.50 in cash plus one share of a new company to be called SilverWillow Energy for each...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 9, 2012 | 5:00 pm

COPPER MINING: Rambler signs off-take agreement for Ming concentrates

NEWFOUNDLAND - Rambler Metals and Mining of Baie Verte, NL, has signed its first off-take agreement for the copper concentrates from its Ming copper-gold mine and mill on the Baie Verte Peninsula. Transamine Trading, a global metals sourcing,...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 9, 2012 | 4:59 pm

ZINC-LEAD MINING: Production begins from Trevali’s Halfmile mine

NEW BRUNSWICK - Initial production has begun from the shallowest parts of the Halfmile polymetallic (zinc-lead-silver-copper-gold) massive sulphide deposit in the Bathurst Mining Camp. Nameplate capacity of 2,000 t/d should be reached in Q1 of...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 9, 2012 | 4:58 pm

BULK SAMPLING: Huldra Silver begins work at Treasure Mountain

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Huldra Silver of Vancouver has begun extracting a 10,000-tonne bulk sample from its Treasure Mountain zinc-lead-silver property 29 km northeast of Hope. The first underground stop mining began last November, and about 4,050...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | January 9, 2012 | 4:57 pm

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