NOXIOUS ODOUR – Syncrude shuts down new coker
ALBERTA - Almost as soon as SYNCRUDE started up its Stage 3 expansion north of Fort McMurray, it was forced to shut...
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ENVIRONMENTAL SPILL – Miramar charged for 2004 incident
NUNAVUT - ENVIRONMENT CANADA has charged MIRAMAR MINING of Vancouver and four related companies with allegedly spil...
NICKEL PRODUCTION – PT Inco cuts 1M lb/week after fire
INDONESIA - A transformer room fire at its No.2 furnace has forced PT INTERNATIONAL NICKEL INDONESIA to cut nickel ...
MERGER MANIA – Small companies join forces
In all the clamour and stick-waving that accompanies the Inco-Falconbridge, Teck Cominco-Inco and Xstrata-Falconbri...
GEOTECHNICAL APPLICATION – SGS rolls out QMine
LAKEFIELD, Ontario - SGS MINERALS SERVICES has successfully initiated its QMine application that allows SGS client...
GRAPHIC TERMINAL – New Magelis model from Schneider
TORONTO - SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC now offers a new Telemecanique Magelis XBT GT graphic terminal for mining, conveying,...
COPPER-GOLD EXPLORATION Deeper drilling yields 1.70% Cu, 1.47 g/t Au at New Afton
BRITISH COLUMBIA In February 2006, NEW GOLD INC. of Vancouver raised over $75 million for exploration and a feasi...
GOLD EXPLORATION Young-Davidson grades are promising
ONTARIO NORTHGATE MINERALS CORP. of Vancouver continues to intersect good gold grades at its Young-Davidson prope...
NICKEL EXPLORATION Minago results higher with depth
MANITOBA NUINSCO RESOURCES of Toronto reports that deep drilling at the Minago nickel deposit in the Thompson Nic...
NICKEL EXPLORATION Lockerby Depth zone confirmed
ONTARIO Toronto-based FIRST NICKEL says it has confirmed the lateral and down-plunge continuation of the Lockerby...
NET NIT The real price of nickel
Communications consultant and CMJ contributor Stan Sudol (stan.sudol@Sympatico.ca) sent us his observations on the ...
DOING SOME DIGGING Silver lining at the Mint
Yesterday in Ottawa, the ROYAL CANADIAN MINT officially opened its new silver refinery. For the first time since th...
COPPER DEVELOPMENTS Mines in Ecuador, Congo
Just quickly, let me touch on two new copper mines slated for development in far-flung corners of the world.
COPPER-GOLD FEASIBILITY Canatuan sulphide project to recover 84M lb Cu
PHILIPPINES Calgary's TVI PACIFIC has completed the feasibility study for its Canatuan copper-gold sulphide proje...
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.