MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Avanti, Noront and Wallbridge
Avanti Mining of Vancouver has hired Kenneth W. Collison as senior VP project development. He was most recentl...
Canadian Mining Journal Staff
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HEDGING: Barrick eliminates all gold hedges
TORONTO — The world's largest gold producer, Barrick Gold, has divested all of its gold hedges and now h...
TAKEOVER: Cliffs ups offer for Freewest
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cliffs Natural Resources has increased its offer for all the outstanding shares of Montreal...
PIT EQUIPMENT: Muskeg River oil sands mine to get more Cat equipment
ALBERTA — Vancouver's Finning International has sold seven Caterpillar 787 mining trucks and nine D11 tr...
COAL DEVELOPMENT No.8 mine to begin production
ALBERTA — Grande Cache Coal of Calgary has received all the necessary permits to begin mining the new No...
GOLD RESOURCES: Snowfield, Brucejack host 23.80-M oz AuEq measured and indicted
BRITISH COLUMBIA — Silver Standard Resources of Vancouver has released new 43-101-compliant numbers from...
GOLD EXPLORATION: Aurizon confirms continuity of Zone 120 at Casa Berardi
QUEBEC — Recent underground drilling by Vancouver-based Aurizon Mines has confirmed the continuity of th...
URANIUM EXPLORATION: CanAlaska outlines $15-M budget for 2010
SASKATCHEWAN — Exploration spending by CanAlaska Uranium of Vancouver will be at least $15 million next ...
Major mine financing deals closed in November 2009
Interestingly, there were no financings closed in Canada during the first half of the month. It was Nov. 17 be...
CLARIFICATION: Closing of Brunswick No.12 mine
An alert reader took me to task for saying that Xstrata Zinc's Brunswick No.12 mine has exhausted its "resourc...
HOT TOPIC: Foreign ownership of Canadian resources (December 02, 2009)
Once again we are going to revisit the question of foreign ownership/exploitation of Canadian mineral resource...
CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE: Interest in Noront, Freewest continues to heat up
The fight for what may be North America's biggest chromite deposit is heating up. Last week in this space we w...
1911 Gold defines new areas of gold mineralization at its True North project
Vancouver-based junior explorer 1911 Gold (TSXV: AUMB; OTCBB: AUMBF) released assay results from ten drill holes for 2,222.00 metres from its surface exploration […]