DOING SOME DIGGING Prospecting the hard way Finding a deposit that will support a profitable mining operation gets harder every day. Prospectors must look fart... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 24, 2005 | 5:00 pm
URANIUM EXPLORATION – Drilling to test depth of Michelin deposit LABRADOR - AURORA ENERGY, a 57%-owned subsidiary of Vancouver-based FRONTEER DEVELOPMENT GROUP, has begun a 40-hole... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 24, 2005 | 5:00 pm
DIAMOND EXPLORATION – Leadbetter yields commercial stones NORTHERN ONTARIO - Val d'Or, Que.-based DIANOR RESOURCES has recovered a total of 36 commercial-sized (>850 microns... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 24, 2005 | 5:00 pm
NET NITS – Realistic gold equivalent Miramar Mining's executive VP Stephen Quin has a more sophisticated formula than our divide-by-ten rule of thumb fo... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 24, 2005 | 5:00 pm
NICKEL-PGM EXPLORATION – Levack footwall expands NORTHERN ONTARIO - The SUDBURY JOINT VENTURE (SJV) has now traced its Levack footwall discovery from about 3,000 ft... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 24, 2005 | 5:00 pm
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – IamGold, Jaguar Nickel, Redstar, St Andrew Goldfields, Yukon Zinc IAMGOLD CORP. of Toronto has hired John McCombe as its new VP operations. He will be responsible for overseeing bot... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 24, 2005 | 5:00 pm
LABOUR SHORTAGE – 81,000 mining jobs go begging OTTAWA - One of Canada's most productive industrial sectors faces a serious skills shortage in the next decade acco... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 24, 2005 | 5:00 pm
3-D MODELLING – Abitibi Greenstone Belt available NORTHERN ONTARIO - LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY's Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRA... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 24, 2005 | 5:00 pm
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT – Victor diamond project gets nod NORTHERN ONTARIO - ENVIRONMENT CANADA has given its stamp of approval to the environmental assessment study for DE ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 24, 2005 | 5:00 pm
COAL PRODUCTION – Cheviot pit to hit 2.8 million t/y BRITISH COLUMBIA - The Federal Court of Canada has dismissed two applications that would have forced a judicial rev... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 24, 2005 | 5:00 pm
COPPER-GOLD MINING – Alumbrera to boost output ARGENTINA - The Alumbrera copper-gold mine in the Catamarca Desert is expanding its concentrator capacity to 40 mil... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
MOLYBDENUM MILL – Power use cut in latest Ruby Creek study BRITISH COLUMBIA - The latest study of milling ores from Vancouver-based ADANAC MOLY CORP.'s Ruby Creek molybdenum ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm