CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: No news is … ?
Never in over 30 years of writing for CMJ, have I seen a week so devoid of news in the mining industry. It has been...
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MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Alpha Gold, Monument Mining and Yukon Gold
Alpha Gold of Coquitlam, B.C., sadly announced the death of CEO George Whatley on Dec. 24. He had led the company s...
GRINDING EQUIPMENT: Norilsk chooses Metso for Talnakh mill
RUSSIA – Norilsk Nickel has selected Metso grinding equipment for its Talnakh concentrator on the Taimyr Peni...
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: Size does not matter to Sego in partnering with native communities
There has been some discussion in this space over the past two weeks as to how it takes very deep pockets to keep t...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Atna Resources, Barrick, FNX, Petaquilla and Takara
Atna Resources of Denver has named David Watkins it executive chairman, and he will be stepping down from his respo...
OFFER FOR SHARES: Fronteer to buy balance of Aurora Energy
VANCOUVER — Fronteer Development Group has announced its intention to purchase all the outstanding common sha...
COPPER MINING: Gibraltar mine plan revised
BRITISH COLUMBIA — Vancouver's Taseko Mines has developed a new 24-month plan for its open pit Gibraltar copp...
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: What the industry needs now
Our friends at the Ontario Mining Association in Toronto are not wasting any time recommending budget measures that...
GOLD EXPLORATION: Testing groundwater to find gold
NEVADA — Nevada Exploration, which is headquartered in Toronto, has linked anomalous groundwater chemistry to...
UNDERSEA DEVELOPMENT: Nautilus defers Solwara 1 equipment build
PAPUA NEW GUINEA — Toronto's Nautilus Minerals has fallen victim to the world's crumbling economy and deferre...
PROJECT PURCHASE: Hawthorne acquires all of Taurus gold deposit
BRITISH COLUMBIA — Hawthorne Gold of Vancouver has acquired the remaining 70% interest in the Taurus gold dep...
NET NITS: Two sides to Aboriginal partnerships
Since I wrote about my trip to De Beers' Victor diamond mine in northern Ontario last week, we heard from Suzanne B...
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: Happy Holidays to all
As the year winds down, many of us are battered by the global economic meltdown. Even the people who are supposed t...
SUSTAINABILITY: Giustra, McEwen & Sprott join Women in Mining initiative
TORONTO and VANCOUVER — Three well-known Canadian mining financiers and philanthropists have agreed to donate...
Finnvera to finance up to $132M in Troilus gold-copper project
The export credit agency showed a letter of interest to Troilus to support equipment acquisition for the project.