CHARITABLE GIVING – Children’s Hospital gets $1.2-million shot in arm
VANCOUVER - BRITISH COLUMBIA's mining industry has made a record contribution of over $1.2 million to BC's Children...
Canadian Mining Journal Staff
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SAFETY AWARDS – West mine takes mine rescue award, Williams wins Ryan trophy
ONTARIO - This year's Ontario Mine Rescue competition held in Hamilton was won by the team from INCO LTD.'s West mi...
MINING & BIODIVERSITY – Input sought for draft document
UNITED KINGDOM - ICMM has prepared draft good practice guidance (GPG) for mining and biodiversity through its dialo...
ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN-UP – Canada, Saskatchewan to share costs at uranium mines
OTTAWA & REGINA - The governments of CANADA and SASKATCHEWAN announced on June 17 that they have agreed to share th...
GOLD MINE OPENING – Barrick starts up Lagunas Norte ahead of schedule
PERU - On June 16, 2005, it was official: BARRICK GOLD said the new Lagunas Norte gold mine reached start-up ahead ...
SILVER DEVELOPMENT – US$225 million raised for San Cristobal
BOLIVIA - Denver-based APEX SILVER MINES has arranged for a US$225-million secured credit facility for development ...
SILVER RESOURCES – Calcite Hill deposit tops 300 million oz
ARGENTINA - Indicated resources at the Navidad project are now estimated at 300.7 million oz of silver and 1.27 mil...
GOLD RESOURCES – Dozens of veins add up at Croinor mine
QUEBEC - The most recent resource estimate for SOUTH-MALARTIC EXPLORATION's small Croinor mine puts contained gold ...
GOLD EXPLORATION – 14.9 g/t reported from Richardson Lake
NORTHERN ONTARIO - From the same-songbook-different-page file comes word of excellent grades 100 km east of Red Lak...
GOLD EXPLORATION – Follansbee & Bonanza looking like two sides of the same coin
NORTHERN ONTARIO - The Red Lake mining district, home to some of the world's highest-grade gold mines, continues to...
URANIUM EXPLORATION – Hunt on in Labrador
CENTRAL LABRADOR - Equal partners FRONTEER GROUP of Vancouver and ALTIUS MINERALS of St. John's, Nfld., have create...
GEOMATICS DATA – Feds renew funding
OTTAWA - The Canadian government has renewed its commitment to providing access to high-quality maps, satellite ima...
DOING SOME DIGGING – The ups, ups & downs of the oil price
Any reader afraid of heights is advised to skip down a few paragraphs. We are going to consider the record-high pri...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Government of B.C., The Northern Miner, UC Resources, Cornerstone, Emgold, First Nickel
The Premier of BRITISH COLUMBIA has performed a minor cabinet shuffle, appointing Bill Bennett as Minister of State...
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.