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... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 28, 2007 | 5:00 pm
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... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 28, 2007 | 5:00 pm
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... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 28, 2007 | 5:00 pm
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... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 28, 2007 | 5:00 pm
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 Journal Staff | November 28, 2007 | 5:00 pm
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... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 28, 2007 | 5:00 pm
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... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 25, 2007 | 5:00 pm
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... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 25, 2007 | 5:00 pm
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – Barrick, CARE double high school enrolment in Tanzania TANZANIA - A six-year partnership between BARRICK GOLD of Toronto and CARE INTERNATIONAL TANZANIA has raised academ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 25, 2007 | 5:00 pm
BASE METAL PRODUCTION – Fabie Bay ore on way to refurbished Horne mill QUEBEC - Last week on Nov. 20, FIRST METALS of Toronto said it had begun shipping ore from its Fabie Bay VMS deposi... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 25, 2007 | 5:00 pm
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: Potash output at Rocanville will jump by 2M t/y In all the attention surrounding the price of gold and copper and oil, we sometimes ignore the industrial minerals ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 25, 2007 | 5:00 pm
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: Miners, First Nations join forces On Nov. 20, the MINING ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (MAC) and the ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS (AFN) agreed to form a partner... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | November 21, 2007 | 5:00 pm