TAKEOVER TROUBLE – Placer Dome rejects Barrick’s bid
VANCOUVER - The directors of PLACER DOME have unanimously recommended that its shareholders reject the hostile take...
Canadian Mining Journal Staff
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SAFETY MILESTONE – A year of working safely at Luscar
EDMONTON - On Nov. 12, LUSCAR reached a significant milestoneone year without a recordable lost time incident at a...
GOLD EXPLORATION – Summit Lake returns 120+ g/t over 1.5 metres
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Drilling at the Summit Lake project belonging to Vancouver's TENAJON RESOURCES has returned core...
GEMSTONE EXPLORATION – True North finds new Baffin Island sapphires
NUNAVUT - Vancouver-based TRUE NORTH GEMS has announced the recovery of two large sapphires on a newly discovered A...
NET NIT – Relocating the Gonzague Langlois mine
Your editor erroneously relocated the Langlois mine in last week's news. We stand corrected by Jack Paraszczak, pro...
GOLD EXPLORATION – Queenston, KL Gold form joint venture
NORTHERN ONTARIO - QUEENSTON MINING and KIRKLAND LAKE GOLD (KL Gold) have formed a 50/50 joint venture to explore p...
DOING SOME DIGGING – Strong foreign growth supports prices
Analysts looking for the reason behind continuing high commodity prices keep coming back to the Chinese economy. Ch...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Arizona Star, Emgold, Canadian Royalties, Mountain Province, Starfire Minerals
Toronto-based ARIZONA STAR RESOURCE CORP. has asked T. James Smolik to join its board of directors. He was a senior...
SCALING ADVANCE – BTI introduces vibrating pick (November 16, 2005)
TORONTO - BREAKER TECHNOLOGY INC. (BTI) has introduced what it says is the greatest advance in hardrock scaling in ...
MINING FORUM – UNCTAD adopts action plan
GENEVA - The Intergovernmental Forum for Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development concluded its Nov. 7-...
TAKEOVER BID – Canico supports new CRVD offer
BRAZIL - Brazilian iron ore miner COMPANHIA VALE DO RIO DOCE (CVRD) has raised its offer to acquire Canadian resour...
SHARE PURCHASE – Newmont takes position in Miramar
VANCOUVER - MIRAMAR MINING CORP. has announced the sale of 18.5 million units to NEWMONT MINING CORP. Each unit con...
Kenorland reports major gold resource at Frotet, backs 4% royalty
Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD; US-OTCQX: KLDCF) unveiled an inaugural inferred mineral resource for the Regnault gold deposit at the Frotet project in […]