URANIUM EXPLORATION – New discovery in Newfoundland
NEWFOUNDLAND - COMMANDER RESOURCES of Vancouver has reported the discovery of a new high-grade uranium showing in t...
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URANIUM EXPLORATION – Denison outlines plans
SASKATCHEWAN - Many juniors are now hunting uranium in the Athabasca Basin, but Toronto-based DENISON MINES has had...
NET NIT – Further comment on statistics
The debate goes on about pollution statistics and the mineral industry. Alicia of cyberspace wrote: "I disagree wit...
POTASH EARNINGS – PCS rides high prices
SASKATOON - With the excitement over high metal prices, the continuing growth of potash, phosphate and nitrogen pri...
DOING SOME DIGGING Merger mania: Barrick wants Placer Dome
Our readers will know by now that BARRICK GOLD of Toronto has launched a hostile takeover bid for Vancouver-based P...
SPECIAL REPORT – Barrick launches bid for Placer Dome
TORONTO - In an attempt by the young to outstrip the old, BARRICK GOLD (ABX-T, ABX-N) has made a hostile US$9.2-bil...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Teck Cominco, Strathmore Minerals, NovaGold, Western Prospector, GlobeStar, Gold Reserve, Temex
Vancouver's TECK COMINCO has announced the retirement of two long-term executives, VP exploration business developm...
RECYCLING AWARD Safety-Kleen receives top honours
STRATFORD, ONTARIO - SAFETY-KLEEN CANADA, has won the RECYCLING COUNCIL OF ONTARIO's platinum Sustainable Technolog...
CONTRACT AWARD “Opportunity” at Peppler Lake
QUEBEC QUINTO TECHNOLOGY of Delta, B.C., has awarded the contract for an "opportunity study" of its Peppler Lake ...
FATALITY Worker killed at Greenhills mine
BRITISH COLUMBIA An employee at the Greenhills coal mine near Elkford was killed on Oct. 20 in a heavy equipment ...
NICKEL TREATMENT Inco opens demo hydromet plant for Voisey’s Bay
NEWFOUNDLAND On Oct. 20 Toronto-based INCO LTD. marked the official startup of its demonstration hydrometallurgic...
GOLD-SILVER DEVELOPMENT – $60M in hand for Ocampo development
MEXICO GAMMON LAKE RESOURCES of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, has arranged debt financing in the amount of US$60 millio...
IAMGOLD and Laurentian University partner to create $2.5M strategic innovation fund
Sudbury-based Laurentian University announced – in partnership with IAMGOLD (TSX: IMG NYSE: IAG) – the creation of the IAMGOLD president’s innovation fund […]