Historically the Yukon is most famous for the Klondike gold rush, but it was also the site of another major mineral discovery in 1918 that touched off its own stampede. This was the mighty silver depo...

Chinese Owners Make Things Happen

The adage remains true: The best place to find gold is in a gold mine. To prove the point, Northgate Minerals of Toronto has taken a fresh look at the Young-Davidson deposit successfully mined from 19...

The journey to Pascua-Lama first began back in 1994, when Barrick acquired Lac Minerals Limited, a Toronto-bas...

High in the barren Andes Mountains lies a body of ore spanning the border between Chile and Argentina. Known a...

The story behind Voisey's Bay...

Yea or nay is the key decision that Northgate MineralsCorp. of Vancouver anxiously awaits from a joint federal-provincial review panel on proposed development of the...

What is Moly? 'Moly' (short for molybdenum) is a versatile metal. Its alloying properties have ensured it a significant role in industrial technology, which increasingly requires mate...

The likelihood of not finding something between the Kiena headframe and the Wesdome headframe is akin to the likelihood of driving across Montreal without hitting a red light!" boasts Wesdome Gold Min...

Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) of Marshalltown, South Africa, and Dynatec Corp. of Richmond Hill, Ont., have agreed to join forces at Dynatec's Ambatovy nickel laterite project. The feasibility st...

The last few years of the 20th Century were not very kind to the nickel industry. In October and December of 1998 the LME price for nickel dipped to US$1.76 a pound, the lowest level ever, if you fact...

The latest oil sands development to be approved is the Horizon mine and on-site upgrader project 70 km north of Fort McMurray, Alta. Horizon is owned 100% by Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., a Calgary...