The word  "detour " is in Detour Gold Corporation’s name but it certainly wasn’t in its vocabulary when it came to building the Detour Lake Mine, located due south of James Bay, about 180 km northeast of Cochrane, and just…

Anaconda Mining’s Pine Cove mine is located on the Baie Verte Peninsula in north-central Newfoundland and characteristic of many mines in the province; it is well serviced by the Trans-Canada Highway, provincial highways and power from...

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It’s a mining project with a twist because part of the work being done by Goldcorp at its Red Lake Gold Mines right now looks more like an urban transportation corridor than the underground workings at a remote mine site.

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…

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…

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.

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…

"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...

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…

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.

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.