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MINING PEOPLE: Energizer Resources, Honey Badger, NioCorp, Noront, and Sierra Metals

Energizer Resources has announced the appointments of V. Peter Harder as chairman and Richard E. Schler as CEO of the Toronto-based company.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 24, 2013 | 4:16 pm

WATER TREATMENT: Goldcorp chooses Actiflo for Eleanor project

A large greenfield gold mine in Quebec, Goldcorp's Éléonore project in the James Bay Region, needed a range of water treatment services to remove arsenic and other metals and to minimize the potential of mine flooding. The...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 24, 2013 | 4:12 pm

Six years and $700M later, Taseko celebrates a new, improved Gibraltar mine

WILLIAMS LAKE, BC – When Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO) re-opened Gibraltar near Williams Lake in 2006, the 36-year old mine had enough ore to feed its 30,000-t/d mill for just over three years.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 24, 2013 | 4:10 pm

GOLD: Mining and milling resumes at Goldex

QUEBEC – Agnico Eagle Mines of Toronto has resumed mining and milling at its Goldex gold mine near Val d'Or. Work is underway on satellite deposits, and the first bullion pour is expected in October 2013. The property is expected to...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 23, 2013 | 4:10 pm

GOLD: Pretium cuts 6,550 g/t at Valley of the Kings

BRITISH COLUMBIA – Vancouver-based Pretium Resources is having extraordinarily good results at its Valley of the Kings bulk sample program and underground exploration drilling at the Brucejack project about 65 km north of Stewart.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 23, 2013 | 4:09 pm

TREATY RIGHTS: Canada opens information about aboriginal and treaty rights

OTTAWA – Provincial and territorial governments, Aboriginal groups, industry and all Canadians will now have access to an online repository of information on aboriginal and treaty rights. Previously, it was only available to federal...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 23, 2013 | 4:07 pm

COPPER: Ivanhoe to raise $100M+ for two projects in DRC

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO – Under the leadership of executive chairman Robert Friedland, Ivanhoe Mines (formerly Ivanplats) of Vancouver has arranged a non-brokered, private placement that will raise $100 million or more. The company...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 23, 2013 | 4:06 pm

Mexico’s proposed tax creates uncertainty

A proposed mining tax of 7.5% on companies in Mexico and as much as 8% on those extracting precious metals is creating uncertainty in the industry about investing in a country that until now has been thought of as one of the world’s most...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 23, 2013 | 4:03 pm

GOLD: South Mine Complex yields more bonanza grades

ONTARIO – Kirkland Lake Gold continues to intersect bonanza gold grades during underground diamond drilling at its South Mine Complex (SMC) near Kirkland lake. Hole 53-2291 assayed 452.84 g/t Au (more than 13 oz per short ton) over a true...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 19, 2013 | 4:11 pm

GRAPHITE: Indicated resources double at Kearney project

ONTARIO – The updated 43-101 study of the Kearney graphite mine 250 km north of Toronto, shows higher inferred and indicated resources – almost doubling the indicated portion. The former flake graphite producer operated from 1989 to...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 19, 2013 | 4:10 pm

MINING PEOPLE: Lydian Int’l, Nuinsco, PMI Gold, and St Andrew Goldfields

Marc Leduc is now COO of Toronto's Lydian International. His career spans development of large mines, heap leaches and tailings areas in the United States, Costa Rica, Mexico, Chile and Peru. A veteran of Barrick's Pierina gold mine, he was...

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 19, 2013 | 4:08 pm

Rockwell recovers four large diamonds, shares soar

Rockwell Diamonds (TSX: RDI; JSE: RDI) continued to climb after the company found four diamonds weighing more than 100 carats from its Middle Orange River projects in South Africa’s Northern Cape province over the past three weeks.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | September 19, 2013 | 4:06 pm

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