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Community effort helps save fishway problem

Almost everybody associates the name “Huckleberry” with Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and his comrade Tom Sawyer, but in the mining community, Huckleberry […]

Gold in Nova Scotia

No metal on earth has the same tantalizing effect on mankind as gold. The ‘sweat of the sun,’ as the ancient Incas called it, has the power to quicken the pulse of the prospector or put a gleam in the…

OIL SANDS: Production begins at Kearl project

ALBERTA - Imperial Oil, operator and 71% owner, says start-up is underway at the first phase of the Kearl oil sands project. ExxonMobil Canada owns the remaining 29% of the project 75 km northeast of Fort McMurray.

GOLD: Jerritt Canyon mill celebrates 8M oz

NEVADA – It is with pride that owner Veris Gold Corp. of Vancouver announces that it's Jerritt Canyon processing plant poured its 8-millionth oz of gold on March 21, 2013. The first ounce of gold was produced on July 4,…

Bold Gold

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…