LOAD-HAUL-DUMPERS – Sandvik launches advanced line SANDVIKEN, Sweden - SANDVIK has launched a new line of load-haul-dumpers (LHDs) to replace the popular Toro and EJC... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 5, 2007 | 5:00 pm
GOLD EXPLORATION – Former Joe Mann mine tested at depth QUEBEC - GOLD BULLION DEVELOPMENT of Vancouver is testing the depths of the former Joe Mann mine near Chibougamau i... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 5, 2007 | 5:00 pm
NET NIT – 184 oz/ton gold not highest grade Richard Wank wrote to us last week to say that the 184 ounces per ton (6,307.53 g/t) of gold reported last week was... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 5, 2007 | 5:00 pm
URANIUM DEVELOPMENT – Midwest development to go ahead SASKATCHEWAN - Development of the Midwest uranium project will go ahead, say owners DENISON MINES (25.17%), AREVA R... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 5, 2007 | 5:00 pm
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