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MINING HALL OF FAME: Dinner to honour three industrty veterans
TORONTO - The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame has chosen Jan. 13, 2011, to hold its 23rd annual dinner and induction ceremony at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel. This year's inductees are geologist and mine finder Mike Muzylowski, metallurgical...
LEAD-ZINC MINING: First concentrate shipped from Alexco’s Bellekeno mine
YUKON - The newly opened Bellekeno mine in the Keno Hill Silver District has made the first shipment of lead-zinc concentrate for owner Alexco Resource Corp. of Vancouver. A subsidiary of Glencore International has agreed to take 42,800 tonnes...
NICKEL-COPPER RESOURCE: URSA hope to expand resources at Shakespeare mine
ONTARIO - URSA Major Minerals of Toronto has resumed drilling to expand the resource at its Shakespeare open pit nickel-copper mine 70 km west of Sudbury. An initial two hole, 1,600-metre program is planned to test the eastern extension of the...
GOLD RESOURCE: Initial Bell Creek numbers top 1.4-M oz
ONTARIO - Toronto-based Lake Shore Gold has released the first 43-101 figures for its Bell Creek complex near Timmins. Measured and indicated resources are 1.79 million tonnes averaging 4.36 g/t Au or 251,200 contained oz of gold. In the...
Ooops!
For those "watch dogs of the web" (and we know there are many of you who keep us on our toes) there was a slight error in Monday's News. The headline on the Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers' story said the company sold US$42 worth of equipment at a...
AWARD: Miners win AEMQ’s “Entrepeneur of the Year Award”
Aurizon Mines Ltd and Typhoon Exploration Inc have received the 2010 "Entrepeneur of the Year Award" from the Association de l'exploration minier du Quebec (AEMQ) .
MINING IN 2011? Extensive report from Deloitte takes a look at trends in global mining
Deloitte has just released a comprehensive Report on Trends in the global mining industry. It highlights how international market shifts are forcing Canadian mining companies to fundamentally change the way they do business. Last year, the...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Consolidated Thompson, NovaGold, Quest Rare Minerals, Ridgemont Iron Ore, Silver Predator and Sinchao Metals
Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines of Montreal has announced that Richard Quesnel has stepped down from his responsibilities as president, CEO and director of the company. Chairman Brian V. Tobin will take up those roles in the interim.
RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP: Rio Tinto Alcan unveils research partnership to study climate change in Quebec’s Lac Saint-Jean basin
Rio Tinto Alcan has just announced that it will invest $500,000 in a new research partnership with Ouranos, a consortium working to better understand the impact of climate change on the Lac Saint-Jean basin in Quebec.
PURCHASE AGREEMENT: Firestone buys Black Mountain zinc-lead-silver property from Kinross
Firestone Ventures of Edmonton just announced that it has signed a formal Purchase Agreement with Kinross Gold Corp of Toronto to earn a 100% interest in the 502-ha Black Mountain (also known as "Windermere Hills") zinc-lead-silver property...
USED EQUIPMENT: Vancouver’s Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers sells US$42 million worth of equipment at last auction of 2010
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Vancouver, announces the sale of US$42 million of mining and construction equipment at its final auction of the year held recently in The Netherlands. More than 1,350 registered buyers from 69 countries bought...
Kenorland reports major gold resource at Frotet, backs 4% royalty
Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD; US-OTCQX: KLDCF) unveiled an inaugural inferred mineral resource for the Regnault gold deposit at the Frotet project in […]