MINE HOISTS – ABB to send pair to China
CHINA - ABB of Vasteras, Sweden, has won the contract to supply a pair of mine hoists to the Gaohe coal mine, a joi...
Canadian Mining Journal Staff
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MINERAL PROCESSING – GL&V acquires Krebs
MONTREAL - GROUPE LAPERRIERE & VERREAULT (GL&V) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all the share capital ...
HYDROMETALLURGY – First HydroCopper plant to be built in Mongolia
MONGOLIA - Finnish mineral processinig giant OUTOKUMPU TECHNOLOGY has signed a deal to build its first HydroCopper...
MAGNESIUM CLOSURE – Norsk Hydro quits Quebec
QUEBEC - NORSK HYDRO of Oslo, Norway, has announced plans to take itself out of the magnesium industry and to close...
CAPITAL SPENDING – Shell, Western Oil Sands promise expansion funding
ALBERTA - All it takes is money in these days of growing construction costs to expand an oil sands project. And the...
CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY – Goldcorp funds economic geology chair
OTTAWA - The UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA's Faculty of Science is the home of the new Goldcorp Chair in Economic Geology. G...
RESEARCH FUNDING – U of Calgary to study oil sands
CALGARY - The UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY is the recipient of $19 million in grants from the CANADA FOUNDATION FOR INNOVA...
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: VIEWPOINT – Environmentalism with a civilized approach
"Environmentalism" could be considered a dirty word by the mining community. Those of the green persuasion have oft...
GOLD PRODUCTION – Lagunas Norte reaches million-oz mark
PERU - BARRICK GOLD of Toronto announced on Nov. 24 that its Lagunas Norte gold mine has reached the one-million-oz...
BASE METAL DEVELOPMENT – Caribou project update
NEW BRUNSWICK As the end of November is near, BLUE NOTE MINING of Montreal has provided an update on its Caribou ...
COPPER-GOLD EXPLORATION – First results from Giant Copper project
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Vancouver's IMPERIAL METALS CORP. has released results from the first drill hole at its Giant Co...
NET NITS – Another new gold mine
We have been reminded by alert reader Herbert Dopp that in our roundup of new gold mines (Four new mines on three c...
BASE METAL DISCOVERIES – New zones unearthed in Sudbury Basin
ONTARIO - After more than a century of mining, the Sudbury Basin is still reluctantly giving up new mineralization....
ZINC-LEAD EXPLORATION – Ruddock Creek yields excellent grades
BRITISH COLUMBIA - DOUBLESTAR RESOURCES of Vancouver has received assays for holes in the Creek zone of its Ruddock...
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.