MERGER MANIA – Everyone wants a piece of somebody When TECK COMINCO announced on May 8 that it wanted to swallow INCO LIMITED, the news touched off a chain of events... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
GOLD EXPLORATION – Augmitto block to be dewatered NORTHWEST QUEBEC - YORBEAU RESOURCES of Montreal has announced the dewatering of the underground workings known as ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
NICKEL EXPLORATION – Pulse EM survey planned near Montcalm mine NORTHERN ONTARIO - Vancouver-based PACIFIC NORTH WEST CAPITAL and FALCONBRIDGE of Toronto, partners at the West Tim... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
CONFERENCE – Mines 2006 in Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA - The EUROPEAN COMMISSION (EC) and SOUTHERN AFRICA DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC) are organizing the f... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Birch Mountain, Kinross, Nuinsco, Cusac Gold, Yukon Zinc Douglas Annable, recently retired president of the AMEC America's energy and mining division, has joined the board ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 14, 2006 | 5:00 pm
GOLD PLANT – Smooth start-up for Gekko at Ballarat AUSTRALIA - The start-up of the gravity circuit at the BALLARAT GOLDFIELDS mine in the Victoria province is reporte... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 14, 2006 | 5:00 pm
CONVEYORS – Luff parts in stock near Montreal LACHINE, QUEBEC - LUFF INDUSTRIES of Calgary has established a stocking distributor partnership with KINECOR in Lac... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 14, 2006 | 5:00 pm
NOMINATIONS – Canadian Mining Hall of Fame (May 14, 2006) TORONTO - The CANADIAN MINING HALL OF FAME is calling for nominations leading to the induction of a new group of wo... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 14, 2006 | 5:00 pm
CORPORATE GIVING – UBC receives $7.5M from Teck Cominco and partners VANCOUVER - British Columbia's only mining engineering program received a $7.5-million boost last week that will si... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 14, 2006 | 5:00 pm
NICKEL PLANT – Inco looks to China LIAONING PROVINCE, CHINA - Toronto's INCO LTD. plans to build a new Utility nickel plant in the city of Dalian. Th... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 14, 2006 | 5:00 pm
ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARD – Noranda Recycling plants reach ISO 14001 BRAMPTON, ONTARIO - The last of NORANDA RECYCLING's five facilities is now accredited to the ISO 14001(2004) enviro... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 14, 2006 | 5:00 pm
COPPER MILLING – Gibraltar concentrator contracts awarded BRITISH COLUMBIA - TASEKO MINES of Vancouver says the concentrator at its Gibraltar copper mine will be expanded to... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | May 14, 2006 | 5:00 pm