DIAMOND MINING – Underground plans set at Diavik
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES - The move to underground mining at the Diavik diamond mine near Lac de Gras has been approve...
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URANIUM MINING – Water inflow slows work at Rabbit Lake
SASKATCHEWAN - CAMECO CORP. of Saskatoon has temporarily reduced underground activities at the Eagle Point mine, pa...
ACQUISITION – Finning to buy Collicutt Energy
ALBERTA - FINNING INTERNATIONAL of Vancouver and COLLICUTT ENERGY SERVICES of Red Deer, Alberta, have agreed to a d...
COPPER DEVELOPMENT Commitments for financing in place for Kolwezi project
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Vancouver-based FIRST QUANTUM MINERALS says the green light has been given for the U...
GOLD DEVELOPMENT – Orezone buys out partner at Essakane
BURKINO FASO - OREZONE RESOURCES of Ottawa has completed a US$200-million financing with which to buy out partner G...
IRON ORE DEVELOPMENT – Preliminary work begins at Bloom Lake
QUEBEC - Work has begun, says Montreal's CONSOLIDATED THOMPSON IRON MINES, at its Bloom Lake iron ore project 400 k...
COPPER RESOURCE – Carmacks deposit tops 400 million lb
YUKON - WESTERN COPPER CORP. of Vancouver has released the latest resource estimate for its wholly owned Carmacks c...
COAL STUDY – Donkin plans dusted off in Cape Breton
NOVA SCOTIA - XSTRATA COAL DONKIN (75%) and Halifax's ERDENE GOLD (25%) have completed a preliminary assessment stu...
GOLD EXPLORATION – Red Lake high-grade reaches 184 oz per ton
ONTARIO - A gold grade of 184 oz per ton is almost unimaginable, but that is what GOLDCORP has intersected in the h...
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: Work at Galore Creek suspended
Development has halted at the Galore Creek copper-gold-silver project in northwest British Columbia. The move surpr...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – BHP Billiton, Canadian Oil Sands, First Nickel, Golden Odyssey, Probe Mines and Revette Minerals
BHP BILLITON of Australia has hired a new group executive and CEO of non-ferrous business, Andrew Mackenzie. He joi...
ENVIRONMENTAL ACCORD – IAMGOLD’s Quimsacocha project advances
ECUADOR - The Government of Ecuador has recognized that Toronto-based IAMGOLD CORP. has met all of its legal, socia...
Fortune Bay to start drilling at the Murmac uranium project this March
Fortune Bay (TSXV: FOR; OTCQB: FTBYF) – an exploration and mining development company – announced winter drill targets for the Murmac uranium project, […]