DOING SOME DIGGING – What’s up with oil prices
Just when we thought US$50/bbl was a high price for oil, along comes a natural disaster to knock some sense into us...
Canadian Mining Journal Staff
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MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Fording, Teck Cominco, Tenajon
Calgary-based FORDING CANADIAN COAL TRUST has named R.J. (Jim) Brown its new VP and CFO. He will also become VP and...
SOFTWARE – New version of control valve selection tool
DALLAS, TEXAS - FLOWSERVE CORP. has released the its 9.3.0 version of Performance!, the company's powerful softwar...
CREEPING TAKEOVER – Xstrata ups Falconbridge share to 20%
TORONTO Swiss mining company XSTRATA has purchased another 0.1% of FALCONBRIDGE LTD. from a non-Canadian private ...
CORRECTION – Cheviot pit in Alberta
Thanks to Alison Seward, a geologist at Elk Valley Coal's Fording River Operation, we now know that the Cheviot min...
ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATE – B.C. says yes to Red Chris mine
BRITISH COLUMBIA - BCMETALS CORP. of Vancouver is now the proud holder of an Environmental Assessment Certificate f...
MINERAL PROCESSING – Vedron buys gold mill
NORTHERN ONTARIO - Junior VEDRON GOLD of Toronto has purchased a complete gold mill from what it refers to as an &q...
MERGER – Shareholders okay Jilbey/High River union
TORONTO - Shareholders of JILBEY GOLD EXPLORATION of New Bedford, N.S., have voted over 99% in favour of merging th...
GOLD DEVELOPMENT – Tasiast gold mine gets green light
MAURITANIA - Toronto-based RIO NARCEA GOLD MINES has given the green light to development of its Tasiast gold mine....
COPPER DEVELOPMENT – Inmet takes 70% of Las Cruces
SPAIN - Toronto-based INMET MINING has acquired a 70% indirect interest in the Las Cruces copper project in Spain. ...
FEASIBILITY STUDY – Turmalina gold numbers emerge
BRAZIL - TSX-listed JAGUAR MINING has completed a feasibility study at its Turmalina gold project 140 km northwest ...
DOING SOME DIGGING Prospecting the hard way
Finding a deposit that will support a profitable mining operation gets harder every day. Prospectors must look fart...
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 […]