Management appointments announced this week include: Clean Air Metals has named Allan MacTavish as VP and project manager for the company’s Thunder Bay North project. Robert Winton has joined Excelsior Mining as general manager and senior VP of the Gunnison…
For emerging Canadian gold mining company Monarch Gold Corporation (TSX: MQR), 2020 has been anything but a slow period. While other sectors in the mining industry have seen their operations disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the team at Monarch have…
NEW BRUNSWICK – Glencore Canada Corp. has announced the permanent closure of its Belledune lead smelter near Bathurst. The decommissioning process is to begin immediately, and the smelter will cease all operations by the end of the year. The news…
Falco Resources’ (TSXV: FPC) Horne 5 project contains 7 million oz. gold. It might contain just as many questions. Perhaps the biggest one is whether or not Falco will secure a fair operating agreement with Glencore (LON: GLEN), which operates the Horne…
Canada has several new mines to celebrate – with more on the way
MANITOBA – Vancouver-based CanAlaska Uranium has reported higher grades and widths of nickel mineralization upon re-assaying core from its Manibridge deposit was re-assayed. The deposit sits within the Thompson nickel belt. The highest grade was recorded from a 1.0-metre interval…
MANITOBA – CanAlaska Uranium agreed today to go ahead with the purchase of 100% of the past-producing Manibridge nickel mine in the Thompson Nickel Belt. The mine is currently owned by Pure Nickel. To acquire it, CanAlaska has to issue…
Onaping Depth will be Glencore’s first all-electric mine and its deepest
SUDBURY, Ont. – Yesterday Vale and Glencore announced that they are planning to create a joint feasibility study to explore and develop mineralization accessible from Glencore’s Nickel Rim South mine. The study will include both economic and technical feasibility for…
SUDBURY, Ont. – Cementation Canada has won the design and construction contract for a new internal shaft for the Onaping Depth nickel project by Glencore. The winze will be sunk from the Craig mine where production was suspended in 2009.…
SUDBURY, Ont. – Vale Canada and Glencore have approved two new projects for their Sudbury Basin operations that will total more than $1.6 billion – deep development of the Copper Cliff and Onaping mines. Vale has decided to go ahead…
Mine rescue volunteers from Compass Minerals Goderich Mine were crowned with gold hard hats by Ontario Mine Rescue, a part of Workplace Safety North (WSN), as the overall winners of the 67th annual Provincial Mine Rescue Competition held recently in Sudbury. The…