MERGER – Shore Gold & Kensington Resources VANCOUVER and SASKATOON - Diamond exploration companies SHORE GOLD and KENSINGTON RESOURCES have announced their in... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
CO-OPERATION AGREEMENT – BC and Chinese mines sign accord VANCOUVER - A co-operation agreement between PINNACLE MINES of Vancouver and a major Chinese gold producer, ZIJIN M... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Blackstone, Northern Dynasty, Orphan Boy, International KRL, Tiberon BLACKSTONE VENTURES of Vancouver has named Dean MacEachern, P.Geo, as a special advisor to the company for all matt... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
LABOUR SETTLEMENT – South Africans return to work JOHANNESBURG - The five-day, industry-wide strike of South African miners has been settled. The workers accepted wa... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
DOING SOME DIGGING – 20% of Falconbridge snapped up by Xstrata The big news this week, the story impossible to miss, is BRASCAN's sale of its 19.9% interest in FALCONBRIDGE to XS... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
GOLD MINING – Placer Tests Set for Indian River YUKON - Vancouver-based BOULDER MINING CORP. is moving forward towards test mining its Indian River alluvial gold p... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
RESOURCE ESTIMATE – Hackett River holds 140 million oz Ag NUNAVUT - SABINA RESOURCES of Thunder Bay, Ontario, says its 100%-owned Hackett River project has resources contain... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
NICKEL DEVELOPMENT – Sumitomo Buys into Ambatovy MADAGASCAR - Japan's SUMITOMO CORP. is acquiring a 25% interest in the Ambatovy nickel project from DYNATEC CORP. o... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
GOLD EXPLORATION – Very high grade, 1.43 oz over 124.5 ft near Macassa mine NORTHERN ONTARIO - The $21-million exploration campaign undertaken by KIRKLAND LAKE GOLD near the city of the same ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
NET NIT – The Britannia Project I thought last week would put to rest the letters concerning Jane Werniuk's editorial about the Britannia mill buil... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 17, 2005 | 5:30 pm
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Inco, Placer Dome, Banro, Bolivar Toronto-based INCO LIMITED has appointed Robert (Bob) D.J. Davies as executive VP and CFO effective Nov. 1, 2005. H... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 10, 2005 | 5:30 pm
ENGINEERING CONTRACT Met-Chem wins Duck Pond EPCM NEWFOUNDLAND MET-CHEM CANADA of Montreal has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction managemen... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | August 10, 2005 | 5:30 pm