Canadian Mining Journal Staff

SUSTAINABILITY: Federal government offers matching funds for MAC’s TSM program

OTTAWA – Mining companies that want to invest in projects to boost efficiency and lower greenhouse gas emissions can apply for federal funding if they are meeting Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) protocols as set out by the Mining...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 4, 2015 | 4:19 pm

MINING PEOPLE: Vale, Cassius Ventures, Minera Alamos, and Rubicon Minerals

Samantha Espley, Vale's general manager of mines and mill technical services (Ontario operations), has won the 2015 award for Support of Women in the Engineering Profession from Engineers Canada. She received recognition for hr achievements as...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 4, 2015 | 4:15 pm

Shining a spotlight on women in mining

As a lawyer with over 20 years of experience in corporate law and as general counsel for an investment firm, Lisa Davis was used to working with more men than women. But it wasn’t until five years ago when she joined PearTree Securities...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 4, 2015 | 4:14 pm

GOLD: Goldcorp supports Premier’s $20M private placement

THUNDER BAY, Ontario – Premier Gold Mines is making a $20-million non-brokered private placement of common shares at a price of $2.35 per share. Approximately $12.5 million worth of shares will be taken up by Goldcorp of Vancouver.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 3, 2015 | 4:12 pm

GOLD: Red Pine identifies more zones at Wawa project

ONTARIO – The Wawa gold project close to the town of the same name is the target of drilling by Red Pine Exploration of Toronto, and the company is finding more mineralized zones in both the hanging wall and footwall of the Surluga...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 3, 2015 | 4:10 pm

GRAPHITE: Mason, Manicouagan-Uapishka sign sustainability partnership

QUEBEC – Mason Graphite of Baie-Comeau, QC, has struck up a partnership with the Manicouagan-Uapishka Biosphere Reserve (RMBMU) in respect to the company's Lac Gueret graphite mine 300 km north of Baie-Comeau and a mineral processing...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 3, 2015 | 4:09 pm

DRILLING: Boart Longyear marks 125 years

LEADVILLE, Colorado - Boart Longyear of Salt Lake City, UT, the world's leading provider of integrated drilling services and drilling products, celebrated its 125th anniversary on June 3, 2015, marking the occasion by announcing a historic...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 3, 2015 | 4:07 pm

Aureus Mining pours first gold at New Liberty in Liberia

Just a month and a half behind schedule and three weeks after the World Health Organization marked the end of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Aureus Mining (TSX: AUE; LSE: AUE) celebrated the first gold pour at its New Liberty open pit...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 3, 2015 | 4:05 pm

MOLYBDENUM-COPPER: Thompson Creek puts suspended Endako mine on care and maintenance, updates Mount Milligan

BRITISH COLUMBIA – Thompson Creek Metals Company (75%) of Denver and joint venture partner Sojitz Moly Resources (25%) of Japan are placing their Endako molybdenum mine on care and maintenance as of July 1, 2015. The mine is 190 km west...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 2, 2015 | 4:06 pm

TUNGSTEN: North American Tungsten announces temporary layoffs

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – Vancouver-based North American Tungsten Corp. has announced a series of temporary layoffs at the Cantung mine 310 km northeast of Watson Lake, near the Yukon border.The layoffs will occur over a six-week period...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 2, 2015 | 4:04 pm

COPPER-GOLD: Low social, environmental impact for Solwara 1 project

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Toronto's Nautilus Minerals has received an independent report that concludes the undersea Solwara 1 copper-gold project has the potential to have far less social and environmental impact than similar projects on land.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 2, 2015 | 4:03 pm

Lundin faces scrutiny at Candelaria in Chile

Less than a year after Lundin Mining Corp. (TSX: LUN) acquired an 80% stake in Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s (NYSE: FCX) Candelaria copper mine in Chile in a deal worth $1.8 billion, environmental regulators in the South...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | June 2, 2015 | 4:01 pm

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