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Articles by Northern Miner Staff
COAL, URANIUM & OIL SANDS — Record production at Syncrude
Production of oil from the Syncrude oil sands plant at Fort McMurray, Alta., set a record in March.Syncrude shipped a record 7.5 million barrels (just under 1.2 million cubic metres) in March, a daily…
COAL, URANIUM & OIL SANDS — Producers run hard to keep running
Canadian coal producers are no strangers to tough markets, but recent weakness in the global economy has brought about a new set of competitive challenges and left some struggling for survival.As volu…
COAL, URANIUM & OIL SANDS — Oil sands investment expected to reach $25 billion — New technologies, declining costs increase competitiveness of some operations
Special to The Northern MinerPetroleum producers are expected to pump another $25 billion into the Canadian oil sands over the next decade, even though the world is so soaked in oil that the Organizat…
COAL, URANIUM & OIL SANDS — Peace River coal field re-examined — Production target: 900,000 tonnes over three years
Privately owned Pine Valley Coal will develop the Willow Creek project. Situated in the Peace River coal field of northeastern British Columbia, the project represents the first new coal mine to be de…
COAL, URANIUM & OIL SANDS — Cameco plans Australian exploration
The youthful Australian unit of Cameco (CCO-T) will have a $4-million budget to work with this year, the largest since the company opened its Australian office in 1992.Cameco Australia, which maintain…
COAL, URANIUM & OIL SANDS — Minco boosts potential of Chinese polymetallic project
As in real estate, a good location adds value to a mineral property. And had the White Silver polymetallic project been situated in Canada’s Abibiti greenstone belt, rather than in Gansu, a province i…
COAL, URANIUM & OIL SANDS — U.S. Energy prepares for production
The Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has issued a groundwater discharge permit to U.S. Energy (USEG-Q) for the Shootaring Canyon uranium mill in southeastern Utah.With this final permit,…
COAL, URANIUM & OIL SANDS — Arch sells portion of reserves
St. Louis-based Arch Coal (ACI-N) has sold a portion of its coal reserves at the Black Thunder mine near Gillette, Wyo., to its neighbour, Kennecott Energy.Kennecott, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto (RTP-N)…
COAL, URANIUM & OIL SANDS — Partners active at Riou Lake
It’s a far cry from the 1970s, when Saskatchewan’s Athabaska Basin was staked solid and dozens of companies had active uranium exploration programs, but a modest renewal of activity in the area has ac…
Meetings (April 12, 1999)
April 12, Western PacificApril 13, Blue GoldApril 13, TalismanApril 14, CassidyApril 14, RaindropApril 15, BradnerApril 15, Gold CanyonApril 16, BrennaApril 16, Colony PacificApril 16, EurekaApril 16,…
Cumberland boosts Meadowbank resource
Vancouver-based Cumberland Resources (CBD-T) has increased resources at its Meadowbank gold project, 70 km north of Baker Lake in the new territory of Nunavut.Resources stand at 8.8 million tonnes ave…