TAKEOVER NEWS – FNX makes offer for Aurora shares
TORONTO & VANCOUVER - Toronto-based FNX MINING CO. has agreed to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Vancouve...
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COPPER PROPERTY – Inmet ventures into Spain
SPAIN - INMET MINING of Toronto is acquiring a 70% interest in the Las Cruces copper project in this country. Inmet...
MINING EQUIPMENT – Finning chalks up two more sales in South America
VANCOUVER - FINNING INTERNATIONAL announced that its South American Mining division has secured contracts worth $12...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Teck Cominco, Kinross, Alcan, Wardrop, Gabriel, Ashton, Tournigan, Spur Ventures
Donald R. Lindsay is the new president and CEO of Vancouver-based TECK COMINCO. Formerly he was president of CIBC W...
DOING SOME DIGGING – Encouraging mining students
The UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO's Mining Building turns 100 this year. U. of T. threw a party on April 23 to mark the eve...
A LITTLE MORE DIGGING – Look to older workers
Complaints about the lack of qualified, available skilled mining industry workers are being heard now. What is a co...
GOLD EXPLORATION – $8-M program underway at Committee Bay
NUNAVUT - COMMITTEE BAY RESOURCES of Edmonton, Alta., has approved an $8-million exploration budget for 2005 at its...
NET NITS – Afton, Black Pearl
Last week Jane Werniuk wrote about DRC RESOURCES' Afton project, which prompted Mark Richards to write: "An in...
COPPER EXPLORATION – Long, high-grade intersections at Marcona
PERU - Toronto-based CHARIOT RESOURCES reports long, high-grade copper sulphide intercepts from its Marcona copper ...
CORPORATE NEWS – Goldcorp to sell sulphate producer
SASKATCHEWAN - GOLDCORP has decided to sell its SASKATCHEWAN MINERALS division and retained the services of Roman F...
GOLD MINE APPROVAL – Glacial debate will not slow Pascua-Lama environmental approval
ARGENTINA/CHILE BORDER - Toronto-based BARRICK GOLD expects to receive environmental approval for its US$1.5-billio...
COPPER-GOLD PRODUCTION – Kansanshi mine reaches commercial milestone
ZAMBIA - FIRST QUANTUM MINERALS of Vancouver reported that its Kansanshi copper/gold mine reached commercial produc...
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 […]