ORDER OF CANADA – Rob McEwen honoured
TORONTO - Rob McEwen, chairman and CEO of US GOLD and LEXAM EXPLORATIONS has been appointed a member of the Order o...
Canadian Mining Journal Staff
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MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Avalon, Centerra Gold, Equinox, Fieldex, GWR Resources, MetalCorp, Pelangio, Teck Cominco, True North Gems and Wildcat Exploration
AVALON VENTURES of Toronto has named Dr. William Mercer to the position of VP exploration. A former-president of th...
FLOTATION COLUMN – New option for coal plants
ERIE, Pennsylvania - ERIEZ now offers a state-of-the-art CoalPro column specifically for coal wash plants. The col...
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: Whats hot at the Asia Pacific Mining Conference
Held recently in Manila, the 7th ASIA PACIFIC MINING CONFERENCE was possibly the largest such event in the region. ...
CONTRACT AWARD – Aker Kvaerner to engineer Poracota gold autoclave
PERU - AKER KVAERNER METALS an arm of the international engineering firm, has won the contract to design a gold aut...
GOLD MERGER – Wesdome and Western Quebec deal approved
TORONTO - Shareholders of WESDOME GOLD MINES and of WESTERN QUEBEC MINES approved the proposed merger of the two co...
SUCCESSFUL MERGER – Lundin and Tenke close deal
VANCOUVER - LUNDIN MINING and TENKE MINING finalized their business combination on July 3, 2007. All Tenke common s...
COPPER SMELTING – Altonorte upgrade to cost US$58 million
CHILE - Swiss mining conglomerate XSTRATA has plans to expand its Altonorte smelter near Antofagasta by one-third t...
OIL SANDS DEVELOPMENT – Fort Hills plans revealed
ALBERTA - The Fort Hills Energy LP has selected the main parameters for its oil sands development 90 km north of Fo...
GOLD EXPLORATION – Q-Gold to go underground at old Foley mine
ONTARIO - Q-GOLD RESOURCES of Flagstaff, Arizona, is going to give the old Foley gold mine near Mine Centre another...
COPPER EXPLORATION – Mount Polley yields 1.12% CuEq over 400 metres
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The most recent drilling from the bottom of the Wight pit at the Mount Polley mine returned 1.12...
NET NIT – Sad times in Zimbabwe
Faithful reader Mike Dry, who moved from South Africa to Canada in 1999, read our item about the Zimbabwean governm...
Kenorland reports major gold resource at Frotet, backs 4% royalty
Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD; US-OTCQX: KLDCF) unveiled an inaugural inferred mineral resource for the Regnault gold deposit at the Frotet project in […]