The Fraser Institute’s new ranking puts New Brunswick at the top of the list of good places for mining and exploration investment. Here is what the Institute said in a recent release:

TORONTO – HudBay Minerals Inc. is uniting all of its operations under the HudBay brand to position itself for continued growth and expansion. The move to a single brand was made to align new projects and acquisitions and to strengthen...

MANITOBA – Auriga Gold Corp. of Toronto is planning both open pit and underground mining at its Maverick gold project near Flin Flon. This is the recommendation of the recent preliminary economic assessment of the project.

STOCKHOLM – Atlas Copco has introduced a new HB 4100 hydraulic breaker that it says is lighter, performs better and is more efficient than its predecessor. The company said it is in the “double-digit percentage range” better.

QUEBEC – Stornoway Diamond Corp. of Vancouver is readying its Renard diamond project in the Otish Mountains for the start of production in 2015, and excitement is building around Quebec’s first diamond mine.

ERIE, Pennsylvania - Eriez is now offers five-day express delivery on 32 electromagnetic vibratory feeder models for customers with approved credit. Feeders Fast, part of the EriezXpress 5-Day program, is a service created to offer customers...

As they release their year-end numbers, Canadian gold miners are for the most part taking advantage of the strong gold price. The average price per ounce in 2011 was $1,571.52 allowing records to be set for revenues, ounces produced, cash…

The World Economic Forum of Geneva and The Boston Consulting Group have published a report that outlines the six building blocks needed to help lift some of the world's least developed countries out of poverty by harnessing their mineral wealth.

ERIE, Pennsylvania - From Eriez comes a series of powerful magnetic pulleys for automatic separation of heavy tramp iron contaminants from conveyor transported materials, including run-of-mine material and fine ore.

BRITISH COLUMBIA - The Britannia Mine Museum at Britannia Beach has won not one, but two, prestigious awards of excellence. The first is the coveted Award for Social and Environmental Responsibility from the Association for Mineral Exploration...

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Vancouver's Seabridge Gold has made a $100,000 contribution to the British Columbia Aboriginal Mines Training Association (BC AMTA). This contribution will help fund the delivery of an essential skills upgrading program in...

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but there are not many eyes that won't pop at a gold grade of 197.4 opt. That's what Golden Hope Mines of Montreal intersected at its Bellechasse-Timmins project in southeast Quebec.…