RECYCLING AWARD Safety-Kleen receives top honours
STRATFORD, ONTARIO - SAFETY-KLEEN CANADA, has won the RECYCLING COUNCIL OF ONTARIO's platinum Sustainable Technolog...
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CONTRACT AWARD “Opportunity” at Peppler Lake
QUEBEC QUINTO TECHNOLOGY of Delta, B.C., has awarded the contract for an "opportunity study" of its Peppler Lake ...
FATALITY Worker killed at Greenhills mine
BRITISH COLUMBIA An employee at the Greenhills coal mine near Elkford was killed on Oct. 20 in a heavy equipment ...
NICKEL TREATMENT Inco opens demo hydromet plant for Voisey’s Bay
NEWFOUNDLAND On Oct. 20 Toronto-based INCO LTD. marked the official startup of its demonstration hydrometallurgic...
GOLD-SILVER DEVELOPMENT – $60M in hand for Ocampo development
MEXICO GAMMON LAKE RESOURCES of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, has arranged debt financing in the amount of US$60 millio...
NICKEL MINING Lockerby officially back in business
NORTHERN ONTARIO Toronto-based FIRST NICKEL has announced the restart of mining at the Lockerby mine near Sudbury...
COPPER RESOURCES Potential addition to Collahuasi reserves
CHILE Toronto-based FALCONBRIDGE is optimistic that inferred resources in the newly tested Rosario Oeste zone wil...
COPPER RESOURCES Chariot plans 2009 Marcona copper startup
PERU - Toronto-based junior CHARIOT RESOURCES is working to start production in 2009 at its Marcona copper project ...
NET NIT Statistics and damned statistics
Last week's editorial on pollution statistics caught the eye of Bill Thuma, an international mining consultant at G...
PGE EXPLORATION Chromite clue found at Highbank Lake
NORTHERN ONTARIO NORTHERN SHIELD RESOURCES of Ottawa has recovered a chromite boulder from its Highbank Lake PGE ...
DOING SOME DIGGING – October is the cruellest month
I think that I will remember October 2005 as the month that the popular media woke up to all that can go wrong when...
CONTRACT AWARD – SNC-Lavalin wins copper study
PERU - Montreal-based SNC-LAVALIN has been awarded the contract to complete a prefeasibility study of the Toromocho...
TAKEOVER NEWS – Canico rejects CVRD offer
VANCOUVER - The board of CANICO RESOURCE CORP. has advised shareholders to reject the takeover offer from COMPANHIA...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Falconbridge, OMA, Alcan, Crystallex, Newmont, Freegold, FNX Mining
Four directors with ties to Brascan have resigned from the board of Toronto-based FALCONBRIDGE. They are George Myh...
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.