COPPER-GOLD EXPLORATION – New Gold raises $50M for Afton
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Vancouver-based NEW GOLD INC. announced on Feb. 1 that it has raised $50.4 million in a bought d...
Canadian Mining Journal Staff
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RESOURCE STUDIES – Nickel, uranium and moly across Canada
Three more Canadian projects have taken a step closer to production. Last week operators of these projects each rel...
DIAMOND EXPLORATION – Near-20-ct stone recovered at Star project
SASKATCHEWAN - The Star diamond project 60 km east of Prince Albert continues to yield exceptionally large stones. ...
NET NITS – Venezuela item draws comment
Last week's column about the political situation in Venezuela brought responses from several readers (one of whom w...
DOING SOME DIGGING – Score 72 for the miners, none for disaster
In the wee hours of Sunday, Jan. 29, an underground miner's worst nightmare came to life: fire broke out in the K1 ...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – MetalCORP, FNX Mining, Birch Mountain
Giles Filion is the newest director to join the board of METALCORP of Thunder Bay, Ont. Until recently he was VP of...
SAMPLE SPLITTER – Knelson offers new rotary splitter
LANGLEY, B.C. - KNELSON GRAVITY SOLUTIONS is now offering a rotary sample splitter which, it says, provides a super...
MINERAL TESTING – SGS opens new lab in Mexico
MEXICO - SGS MINERALS SERVICES of Lakefield, Ont., has opened a new facility in Durango to service the growing Mexi...
EQUIPMENT SALES – Atlas Copco, Coneco/Terratech team up in the west
ATLAS COPCO CONSTRUCTION & MINING CANADA of Sudbury and CONECO/TERRATECH of Edmonton have joined forces to promote ...
ZINC SALES – Duck Pond output hedged
NEWFOUNDLAND - Toronto-based AUR RESOURCES has entered into forward sales contracts for 75% of the future productio...
INVESTMENT – Everton gets boost from McEwen
OTTAWA - EVERTON RESOURCES is getting a $1.5-million boost from mining entrepreneur Rob McEwen of Toronto. He has a...
AMALGAMATION – Placer board resigns as Barrick takes over
VANCOUVER - Nine directors of PLACER DOME have resigned following the announcement that BARRICK GOLD now controls 8...
How to design successful potash conveyors
The potash industry continues to see growth as the world looks to feed its surging population. Amidst the array of machinery facilitating […]