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Nutrien first to use remote control Cat dozer
Nutrien (TSX: NTR; NYSE: NTR), is the first company in the fertilizer industry to implement the Cat Command for dozing remote control system at its Aurora, N.C., phosphate facility to create a safer working environment and improve reliability. This innovative…
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Vale suspends operations at Sudbury after failed labour talks
Vale said in a securities filing on Tuesday it will suspend operations at its Sudbury, Canada nickel mine, after its proposal for a five-year contract was rejected by the United Steelworkers union. United Steelworkers Local 6500, which represents 2,600 workers at…
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Talisker drills three high grade veins at Bralorne
Talisker Resources (TSX: TSK; US-OTC: TSKFF) has intersected three high grade veins in the former Bralorne mine property in the Lillooet division of B.C. The find was made during the company’s ongoing 100,000-metre drill program from the Bralorne West block…
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Thesis, First Nations sign exploration deal for Ranch gold project
Thesis Gold (TSXV: TAU) has signed an early stage exploration agreement with the Kwadacha, Takla and Tsay Keh Dene First Nations. It covers the company’s 100%-owned Ranch gold project 300 km north of Smithers, in the Toodoggone region of B.C.…
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Clearwater River band checks travelers to uranium projects
The Clearwater River Dene Nation (CRDN) of northwest Saskatchewan has erected what it calls a security checkpoint on Highway 995 that runs through its reserve to uranium projects on the southwest rim of the Athabasca Basin. The Nation has taken…
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RJK seeks source of kimberlite feeder in northern Ontario
In February 2020 RJK Explorations (TSXV: RJX.A; OTC: RJKAF) announced that it had discovered the Kon diamondiferous kimberlite sill on its Nipissing project south of Cobalt, Ont. It is now in the midst of a 10-hole drill program to find…
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Goldsource seeks to chart scalable development of Eagle Mountain
Goldsource Mines (TSXV: GXS) is rapidly advancing the Eagle Mountain project in Guyana, the country’s second-largest undeveloped gold deposit, CEO Steve Parsons tells The Northern Miner in an interview. On February 22, the Canada-based company published a new National Instrument…
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Dundee expands into Ecuador with IVN Metals buy
Canada’s Dundee Precious Metals (TSX: DPM) will add its first project in the Americas to its portfolio by acquiring all the shares it doesn’t already own in junior miner INV Metals (TSX: INV), which owns the advanced-stage Loma Larga gold project…
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Wenco buys up SmartCap fatigue device
Vancouver’s Wenco International Mining Systems has purchases of all assets and intellectual property of SmartCap Technologies Pty, engineers of the world’s leading fatigue monitoring wearable. Based in Brisbane, Australia, SmartCap assesses real-time fatigue levels and monitors for oncoming microsleeps that…
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Artemis, Nazko sign IBA for Blackwater project
An impact benefit agreement (IBA) has been signed by the Nazko First Nation and Artemis Gold (TSXV: ARTG) covering the Blackwater gold project 150 km southwest of Prince George, B.C. “We thank the Nazko First Nation for demonstrating their support…
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Keno Hill silver reserves jump 22% for Alexco
Alexco Resource Corp. (TSX: AXU; NYSE: AXU) has boosted silver content at its Keno Hill project in Yukon by 22% to 1.44 million tonnes grading 804 g/t silver, 3.84% zinc, 2.64% lead and 0.31 g/t gold in proven and probable reserves.…
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Agnico Eagle supports Princess Margaret cancer fund with $10M
Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) has made another large charitable donation, giving $10 million to the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. The latest gift brings Agnico’s total cumulative donations to over $25 million, making it one of the largest…
