GOLD PRODUCTION NEWS Sigma-Lamaque Mill Shut Down
VAL D'OR, Quebec An electrical malfunction forced the temporary closure of McWATTERS MINING's Sigma-Lamaque gold...
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OIL SANDS PRODUCTION NEWS Fully Integrated Production Achieved
FORT McMURRAY, Alberta The Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP) has achieved fully integrated operation when the Sc...
BASE METAL PRODUCTION NEWS Brunswick Agreement Ratified
BATHURST, New Brunswick NORANDA reports that its unionized employees at the Brunswick zinc-lead mine have voted 7...
LEACHING EQUIPMENT NEWS Yanacocha Orders from Gekko
CAJAMARCA, Peru The world's largest open pit heap leaching gold mine, the NEWMONT-operated Yanococha mine, has or...
OBITUARY Paul Greico
The Grieco family and the mining community are saddened by the death of Paul Grieco last March. Having attained the...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS (April 23, 2003)
FALCONBRIDGE has named David W. Kerr as chairman. He succeeds Alex G. Balogh, who will continue to serve on the boa...
MINING HALL OF FAME NEWS Nominations
The CANADIAN MINING HALL OF FAME has issued its yearly call for nominations that will lead to the induction of a ne...
DOING SOME DIGGING Busy Barrick Lawyers
Readers might be forgiven for thinking that Barrick is as much of a law firm as a gold miner. It seems the corporat...
WINNING NEWS Reader Wins Gold Coin
Every year Canadian Mining Journal awards a prize to one of the readers who send us their opinions about issues of...
GOLD EXPLORATION NEWS Cumberland Begins Meadowbank Permitting
BAKER LAKE, Nunavut The Meadowbank gold project is a step closer to development. CUMBERLAND RESOURCES has submitt...
GOLD EXPLORATION NEWS Aurizon to Start Second Phase Underground at Casa Berardi
LA SARRE, Que. AURIZON MINES has arranged a $5-million private placement to fund the second phase of underground...
COPPER/GOLD EXPLORATION NEWS Chretien Attends GlobeStar Permit Ceremony
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic Both Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the president of the Dominican R...
GOLD MINING NEWS Turquoise Ridge Reopens in Nevada
WINNEMUCCA, Nevada The Turquoise Ridge gold mine, part of the Getchell property, is going back into production by...
GOLD MINING NEWS Doyon Back on Track
ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. Full production has resumed at CAMBIOR's Doyon gold mine two weeks earlier than anticipated.
Tungsten surge transforms Northcliff’s Sisson economics
Northcliff Resources’ (TSX: NCF; US-OTC: NCFFF) new feasibility study for the Sisson tungsten-molybdenum project in New Brunswick puts its post-tax value at […]