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AUTOMATION: Neptec’s radar, laser combo allows shovel to “see”

OTTAWA – - Neptec Technologies Corp., a leading developer of innovative 3-D robotic vision products, successfully demonstrated its OPAL-360 obscurant-penetrating LiDAR scanner at Barrick Gold Corp.'s Goldstrike mine in Nevada. The...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 18, 2013 | 3:43 pm

Denison Mines tops Mega’s offer for Rockgate

Denison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE-MKT: DNN) has tabled a superior all share bid for Rockgate Capital (TSX: RGT), a week before Rockgate shareholders are set to vote on a merger with Mega Uranium (TSX: MGA), claiming over 40% of Rockgate's...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 18, 2013 | 3:41 pm

NICKEL-COPPER: Lundin secures financing for Eagle mine

MICHIGAN – Lundin Mining Corp. of Toronto has secured commitments from a syndicate of lenders for a $250 million loan with which to advance the Eagle nickel-copper project in the Upper Peninsula, near Marquette. The new credit agreement...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 17, 2013 | 3:50 pm

IRON ORE: First DSO shipment made from Tata project

QUEBEC – The MV Sterling departed Sept-Iles on Sept. 14 with a cargo of 77,000 tonnes of iron ore sinter fines from the Tata Steel Minerals Canada direct shipping ore (DSO) project near Schefferville. The project is a joint venture of...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 17, 2013 | 3:49 pm

GOLD: San Gold drills multiple new zones

MANITOBA – Winnipeg-based San Gold Corp. has discovered several new zone along its Shoreline Basalt host unit, close to its Rice Lake mining complex at Bissett. "Very encouraging" results were returned from each of four new zones.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 17, 2013 | 3:47 pm

MINING PEOPLE: Focus Graphite, Silvercorp, Teck, and White Pine

Focus Graphite of Ottawa has named Don Baxter its new COO. He is a former president of Northern Graphite and was mine superintendent at the Kearny graphite mine in the 1990s.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 17, 2013 | 3:42 pm

Is there any hope left for juniors?

There's no surprise that the recent fall in commodity prices and the rise in costs, coupled with shrinking capital have created a recipe for disaster in the junior resource sector. But John McCoach believes better days are ahead for the sector.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 17, 2013 | 3:40 pm

SUSTAINABILITY: Teck, Kinross listed on DJSI

VANCOUVER and TORONTO: Teck Resources and Kinross Gold have been listed on the 2013 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), as has Barrick Gold as reported last week.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 16, 2013 | 4:18 pm

SILVER: Endeavour boosts guidance 20%

MEXICO – Vancouver-based Endeavour Silver Corp. is raising its 2013 guidance for silver production by 20% to 6.0 million oz. The company has three producing underground mines – Guanacevi mine in Durango state and the Bolanitos and...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 16, 2013 | 4:17 pm

COPPER-GOLD: Anglo pulls out of Pebble project

ALASKA – Anglo American plc of London, UK, is pulling out of the Pebble copper-gold project 300 km from Anchorage. The Pebble Limited Partnership created in 2007 to develop the property now becomes 100% owned by Northern Dynasty Minerals...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 16, 2013 | 4:15 pm

PNG Gold hits more high grade at Imwauna

VANCOUVER – Every time drills probe the main Imwauna vein system at PNG Gold's (TSXV: PGK) Normanby project in Papua New Guinea they return high grade gold from a steeply dipping structure that is narrow but easy to access because a...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 16, 2013 | 4:12 pm

OPINION: Transnational corporate liability for human rights violations, part 2

Part 1 of this discussion appeared in CMJ's Sept. 11 Daily Headline News.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 12, 2013 | 4:11 pm

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