COAL PRODUCTION – Coal Valley Output to Double
ALBERTA - The LUSCAR ENERGY PARTNERSHIP of Toronto has announced plans to double the output of its Coal Valley mine...
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ALUMINUM PRODUCTION – Alouette Starts Two New Potrooms
QUEBEC - This morning (Jan. 12), ALUMINERIE ALOUETTE began the vast start-up of its expansion project Phase II in t...
GOLD PRODUCTION – Cambior, Goldcorp, Northgate Set Records
Three Canadian companies, Cambior, Goldcorp and Northgate, have taken advantage of golden opportunities to set reco...
WILDLIFE ATTACK – Miner 1, Wolf 0
KEY LAKE, SASKATCHEWAN - An employee at CAMECO's Key Lake uranium operation put an attacking timber wolf in a headl...
DRILL RIGS – Major Drilling to Represent Shramm in Latin America
CHILE - UNIVERSAL DRILL RIGS CHILE (UDR Chile), a subsidiary of Moncton-based MAJOR DRILLING GROUP INTERNATIONAL, i...
NICKEL DEVELOPMENT – Goro Financing Arranged
NEW CALEDONIA - Toronto-based INCO LTD., its 85%-owned subsidiary GORO NICKEL and the project development company h...
GRINDING BREAKTHROUGH – Two Efficiencies Better Than One
ISHPEMING, MINNESOTA - Major savings in grinding plant costs are on the horizon. The discovery that ball mill circu...
LATIN AMERICAN ROUND-UP (Part Two) – Exploration from Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego
Higher metals prices made exploration much more lucrative this year. Drill rigs could be heard throbbing from Tijua...
COPPER RESOURCES – Regalito Find Called "World Class"
CHILE - Vancouver-based LUMINA COPPER CORP. says that an independent mineral resource estimate makes its Regalito p...
DOING SOME DIGGING – Help Pouring In
Help is pouring into the Asian and African countries devastated by the tsunami on Boxing Day 2004. The death toll i...
LATIN AMERICAN ROUND-UP (Part One) – Buoyant Prices Yield Strong Performance, Big Plans
Mining companies have rediscovered how to rake in the really big bucks, led by Latin America's big three: Chile's s...
BASE METAL ACQUISITION – OntZinc Takes Hudson Bay Operations & Name
ONTARIO - Toronto-based ONTZINC CORP. has completed the $325-million acquisition of HUDSON BAY MINING & SMELTING fr...
SOFTWARE FOR CONTROLLERS – Telemecanique Saves Time & Money
TORONTO - SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC's new and versatile Telemecanique Unity Pro 2.0 programming software facilitates IEC 6...
GOLD EXPLORATION – Encouraging Results from Former Kiena Mine
QUEBEC - Early drill results from the VC zone at the former Kiena gold mine near Val d'Or are "very encouragin...
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 […]