BASE METAL DEVELOPMENT – Ursa Major moves Ni-Cu project forward
ONTARIO - URSA MAJOR MINERALS of Toronto is taking the next step toward development of its Shakespeare nickel-coppe...
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METALLURGICAL STUDY – LabMag project to produce direct reduction pellets
LABRADOR - Recent bench-scale tests at SGS LAKEFIELD RESEARCH of concentrate from the LabMag iron ore project demon...
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: OIL SANDS RESOURCES – Northern Lights project backed by 2B barrels
ALBERTA - Calgary-based SYNENCO ENERGY has tallied the results of last winter's drilling program and estimated the ...
PROCESS EQUIPMENT – GL&V sales reports $40M sales awarded
MONTREAL - GROUPE LAPERRIERE & VERREAULT (GL&V) reports that it has been awarded a number of large-scale contracts ...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Adanac, AECL, Alcan, Canadian Arrow, Grande Cache Coal, Hatch, Inco, Richmont, St Andrew and Yukon Gold
ADANAC MOLYBDENUM CORP. of Vancouver has named Mike MacLeod president and CEO at its recent annual meeting. At the ...
URANIUM PRICE – Record set at over $60 a pound
The spot price of uranium trioxide reached a new high of US$60.25/lb U3O8 on Oct. 30, 2006. This new price represen...
MERGER ROUNDUP – The week’s news, happy and not
The merger-go-round continues to whirl. Not all of the recent proposals make headlines, but those with big-name com...
GOLD PROPERTY – Richmont sells Nugget Pond
NEWFOUNDLAND - Montreal-based RICHMONT MINES has sold its Nugget Pond property and gold mill on the Baie Verte Peni...
OIL SANDS DEVELOPMENT – Horizon project nears halfway mark
ALBERTA - CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES (CNRL) of Calgary says that as of the end of September 2006, work was 47% comp...
IRON ORE EXPLORATION – Baffinland secures $16M for more work
NUNAVUT - Toronto-based BAFFINLAND IRON MINES has raise $16.0 million through non-brokered flow-through private pla...
GOLD EXPLORATION – Timmins West goes 65 g/t over 4 metres
ONTARIO - With over 70 million oz of gold produced in the past 100 years, the Timmins area of northern Ontario rema...
NET NIT – Another high-grade gold finding
"Just read your article on high-grade gold in Canada," wrote mineral technologist Duane Studer of North-Sask Ventur...
NICKEL DEVELOPMENT – Ambatovy nickel project back on the front burner
MADAGASCAR - Two new partners have been found for the large Ambatovy nickel laterite project in Madagascar. One is ...
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: VIEWPOINT – McEwen fights Goldcorp-Glamis merger
Picture for a moment the brave matador standing tall in the heat and dust of the bull ring. He faces down not one, ...
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.