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Turning tailings into gold

With the price of gold still strong, no one is surprised to find gold in an old gold mine. What used to be considered waste is now a resource. Two proposed tailings retreatment projects – one in British Columbia and…

GOLD DEVELOPMENT: AuRico updates progress at Young-Davidson

ONTARIO – AuRico Gold of Toronto released its monthly update for the development of its Young-Davidson gold mine and mill near Matachewan with the news that wet commissioning of the mill has begun. The first gold pour target is only…

GOLD STUDY: Pit and underground planned at Maverick

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.

Snags at year-end for gold miners

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…

Bottoms Up

"Sight Unseen" could easily be Cementation Canada’s motto because most of the work the company does is underground. In fact, for the past 14 years, the vast majority of the engineering and contracting projects the company has undertaken...

Moving Ahead

Wesdome Gold’s Eagle River gold mine is located 50 km due west of Wawa, and 65 km southeast of the Hemlo property featured in the previous article. It is perched on the Algoma Plateau about 310 m above Lake Superior…

Triple Play

There are only a handful of mines in Ontario with a history as deep and rich as Goldcorp’s Red Lake Gold Mines, located about 350 km northwest of Thunder Bay, near the Ontario/Manitoba border.

Hemlo Shines

Barrick Gold Corporation’s Hemlo mines are located about a 30-minute drive east of the Town of Marathon on the north shore of Lake Superior 350 km east of Thunder Bay.

Bellechasse-Timmins drilling returns near 200-oz core

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.…

New Gold’s New Gold

Poised and ready for action pretty much describes the scene at New Gold's "New Afton" mine near Kamloops as crews continue to work underground to bring the Cdn$700 million mine into production later this year.

Atac Resources

The Rackla Gold Project is located 55 km northeast of Keno City in Central Yukon and is 100% owned by ATAC Resources Ltd. with no underlying royalties. The project is over 1,600 km(2) and is situated between the regional-scale Dawson…

Rockhaven Resources

The Klaza property is located 50 km west of Carmacks, Yukon. The property is road accessible by a two-wheel drive road from the Klondike Highway and is favourably situated within the Mt. Nansen gold camp, a district that hosts an…