SULPHATE REMOVAL – BioteQ to build demonstration plant ARIZONA - Vancouver-based BIOTEQ ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES has joined FREEPORT MCMORAN COPPER & GOLD to build and ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 5, 2007 | 5:00 pm
GOLD-SILVER EXPLORATION – Sudbury Basin may have makings of gold mine ONTARIO - WALLBRIDGE MINING of Lively, Ont., has uncovered precious metals grades that could be good enough to make... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 5, 2007 | 5:00 pm
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: Commodity prices not yet at peak: Rio Tinto LONDON, U.K. - Vivek Tulpule, the chief economist at RIO TINTO, is saying that commodity prices have not yet peaked... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 2, 2007 | 5:00 pm
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Avalon Ventures, Brett Resources, MABC, New Gold, NWT & Nunavut Chamber and Staccato Gold AVALON VENTURES of Toronto has appointed Peter McCarter to its board of directors. He was executive VP at Aur Resou... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 2, 2007 | 5:00 pm
WOMEN IN MINING – New networking website LONDON, U.K. - Women in Mining Community Portal Ltd. has just built and launched the global WOMEN IN MINING website... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 2, 2007 | 5:00 pm
MERGER – Sherwood Copper, Western Keltic reach deal VANCOUVER - SHERWOOD COPPER CORP. and WESTERN KELTIC MINES have agreed to a deal that will see Western Keltic acqui... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 2, 2007 | 5:00 pm
ENVIRONMENT AWARD – Yukon-Nevada Gold wins Leckie award YUKON - Lynn Patterson, chairman of Vancouver-based YUKON-NEVADA GOLD, accepted the Robert E. Leckie award on behal... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 2, 2007 | 5:00 pm
DIAMOND MINING – Underground plans set at Diavik NORTHWEST TERRITORIES - The move to underground mining at the Diavik diamond mine near Lac de Gras has been approve... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 2, 2007 | 5:00 pm
URANIUM MINING – Water inflow slows work at Rabbit Lake SASKATCHEWAN - CAMECO CORP. of Saskatoon has temporarily reduced underground activities at the Eagle Point mine, pa... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 2, 2007 | 5:00 pm
ACQUISITION – Finning to buy Collicutt Energy ALBERTA - FINNING INTERNATIONAL of Vancouver and COLLICUTT ENERGY SERVICES of Red Deer, Alberta, have agreed to a d... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 28, 2007 | 5:00 pm
COPPER DEVELOPMENT Commitments for financing in place for Kolwezi project DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Vancouver-based FIRST QUANTUM MINERALS says the green light has been given for the U... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 28, 2007 | 5:00 pm
GOLD DEVELOPMENT – Orezone buys out partner at Essakane BURKINO FASO - OREZONE RESOURCES of Ottawa has completed a US$200-million financing with which to buy out partner G... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 28, 2007 | 5:00 pm