GOLD DEVELOPMENT – High River raises funds for Russian mine RUSSIA - HIGH RIVER GOLD MINES of Toronto has arranged project financing of US$49.0 million to complete development... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 21, 2006 | 5:00 pm
GOLD DEVELOPMENT – $260-M LaRonde II project approved NORTHERN QUEBEC - AGNICO-EAGLE MINES of Toronto has decided to spend Cdn$262.1 million to build the LaRonde II gold... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 21, 2006 | 5:00 pm
TAXING MATTER – Mongolia slips in windfall mining tax ULAN BATOR - There was a time when IVANHOE MINES, led by Canadian financier Robert Friedland of Voisey's Bay fame, ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 21, 2006 | 5:00 pm
DOING SOME DIGGING – That sinking feeling at South Deeps On May 4 at the South Deep gold mine, a loaded skip and its hoist rope fell 1,600 metres from the middle to the bot... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
CONFERENCE – Exploration 07 in Toronto TORONTO - There are two compelling reasons to plan on attending the EXPLORATION 07: Exploration in the New Millenni... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
GOLD FEASIBILITY – Great Basin’s Burnstone project gets thumbs up SOUTH AFRICA - Vancouver-based GREAT BASIN GOLD has received a positive feasibility report on its Burnstone project... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
COPPER RESOURCES – Tulsequah moves toward feasibility NORTHWESTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA - The latest resource estimate for the Tulsequah Chief deposit near Atlin includes 5.... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
MERGER MANIA – Everyone wants a piece of somebody When TECK COMINCO announced on May 8 that it wanted to swallow INCO LIMITED, the news touched off a chain of events... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
GOLD EXPLORATION – Augmitto block to be dewatered NORTHWEST QUEBEC - YORBEAU RESOURCES of Montreal has announced the dewatering of the underground workings known as ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
NICKEL EXPLORATION – Pulse EM survey planned near Montcalm mine NORTHERN ONTARIO - Vancouver-based PACIFIC NORTH WEST CAPITAL and FALCONBRIDGE of Toronto, partners at the West Tim... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
CONFERENCE – Mines 2006 in Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA - The EUROPEAN COMMISSION (EC) and SOUTHERN AFRICA DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC) are organizing the f... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Birch Mountain, Kinross, Nuinsco, Cusac Gold, Yukon Zinc Douglas Annable, recently retired president of the AMEC America's energy and mining division, has joined the board ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 14, 2006 | 5:00 pm