NICKEL-PGM EXPLORATION – Levack footwall expands
NORTHERN ONTARIO - The SUDBURY JOINT VENTURE (SJV) has now traced its Levack footwall discovery from about 3,000 ft...
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MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – IamGold, Jaguar Nickel, Redstar, St Andrew Goldfields, Yukon Zinc
IAMGOLD CORP. of Toronto has hired John McCombe as its new VP operations. He will be responsible for overseeing bot...
LABOUR SHORTAGE – 81,000 mining jobs go begging
OTTAWA - One of Canada's most productive industrial sectors faces a serious skills shortage in the next decade acco...
3-D MODELLING – Abitibi Greenstone Belt available
NORTHERN ONTARIO - LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY's Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRA...
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT – Victor diamond project gets nod
NORTHERN ONTARIO - ENVIRONMENT CANADA has given its stamp of approval to the environmental assessment study for DE ...
COAL PRODUCTION – Cheviot pit to hit 2.8 million t/y
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The Federal Court of Canada has dismissed two applications that would have forced a judicial rev...
COPPER-GOLD MINING – Alumbrera to boost output
ARGENTINA - The Alumbrera copper-gold mine in the Catamarca Desert is expanding its concentrator capacity to 40 mil...
MOLYBDENUM MILL – Power use cut in latest Ruby Creek study
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The latest study of milling ores from Vancouver-based ADANAC MOLY CORP.'s Ruby Creek molybdenum ...
MERGER – Shore Gold & Kensington Resources
VANCOUVER and SASKATOON - Diamond exploration companies SHORE GOLD and KENSINGTON RESOURCES have announced their in...
CO-OPERATION AGREEMENT – BC and Chinese mines sign accord
VANCOUVER - A co-operation agreement between PINNACLE MINES of Vancouver and a major Chinese gold producer, ZIJIN M...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Blackstone, Northern Dynasty, Orphan Boy, International KRL, Tiberon
BLACKSTONE VENTURES of Vancouver has named Dean MacEachern, P.Geo, as a special advisor to the company for all matt...
LABOUR SETTLEMENT – South Africans return to work
JOHANNESBURG - The five-day, industry-wide strike of South African miners has been settled. The workers accepted wa...
DOING SOME DIGGING – 20% of Falconbridge snapped up by Xstrata
The big news this week, the story impossible to miss, is BRASCAN's sale of its 19.9% interest in FALCONBRIDGE to XS...
GOLD MINING – Placer Tests Set for Indian River
YUKON - Vancouver-based BOULDER MINING CORP. is moving forward towards test mining its Indian River alluvial gold p...
Goldman cuts gold price forecast down to $4,900
Goldman Sachs has slashed its gold price forecast by $500 an ounce to reflect the increased likelihood that the US Federal Reserve […]