ALUMINUM CASTING: Rio Tinto Alcan pledges US$7.6 million for Beauharnois plant
QUEBEC - Rio Tinto Alcan of Montreal is approved the spending of US$7.6 million to increase capacity at its Be...
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CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVE: Teck shines at Olympic Games
Teck Resources of Vancouver has made the podium at the Olympic Winter Games being held in British Columbia. We...
DIAMOND DEVELOPMENT: Stornoway announces permitting plans for Renard project
QUEBEC - Vancouver-based Stornoway Diamond Corp. has filed a notice of intent, the first step in the mine perm...
URANIUM DEVELOPMENT: Cigar Lake crews re-enter 480-metre level
SASKATCHEWAN - Crews safely re-entered the main working level at of the Cigar Lake uranium mine development on...
URANIUM EXPLORATION: Waterbury Lake grades very high
SASKATCHEWAN - Fission Energy of Kelowna, BC, has received very high assays from the discovery hole at its Wat...
VANADIUM EXPLORATION: Crosshair cuts 0.18% V2O5 over 241 metres
LABRADOR - Crosshair Exploration & Mining of Vancouver has cut the widest vanadium intercept to date - 241...
CORRECTION: BBA of Mont-Saint-Hilaire
It has been brought to our attention that we erroneously identified the consulting engineering firm of BBA of ...
HOT TOPIC: Is REE exploration all hype? (February 17, 2010)
Much has been written in recent weeks about the hunt for rare earth elements (REE). They are billed as everyth...
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVE: The True North, strong and … mapped
Faculty and graduate students from the University of Calgary have joined in the research of sedimentary basins...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Detour Gold, Richmont Mines, Silver Predator, True North Gems and Ventana
Detour Gold Corp. of Toronto has named Pierre Beaudoin as senior VP of capital projects. He will oversee the D...
NEW ALLIANCE: Yukon gold miners band together
YUKON - Alexco Resource Corp., Capstone Mining, Copper Ridge Explorations, Golden Predator Royalty & Devel...
PUBLICATION: Dealing with artisanal and small-scale mining
LONDON, UK - The International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) has published a new document, called "Wor...
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: First Coal to skip small mine designation
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Vancouver's First Coal Corp., a privately held company, has decided to move directly into t...
NICKEL MINING: Vale Inco mucking from three mines, smelter operating
ONTARIO - Vale Inco, the Brazilian miner whose 3,000 unionized Sudbury workers have been on strike since July ...
Tungsten West scores $97M UK investment
The company announced it will restart tungsten and tin productions at Hemerdon by this year’s third quarter.