Lew Parres scholarship
A scholarship fund has been established in memory of Lew Parres (1915-2004), a consulting geologist and entrepreneur who spent 75 years in mining, mostly in Manitoba.
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States’ rights
The State of Michigan has passed a law regulating mining of non-ferrous metals, one that Governor Jennifer Granholm says will be “the toughest set of mining regulations” in the United States.
Grinding circuit breakthrough
The discovery that ball mill circuit performance is not controlled by a single “efficiency” but rather by two distinct and active efficiencies was first proposed by Robert McIvor in 1987 in his McGill University thesis. Now, validation of his theo…
PDAC questions Ontario bill
The Prospectors & Developers Association (PDAC) has made submissions to hearings into Bill 97, which proposes that resource companies intending to extract natural resources from First Nations traditional lands in northern Ontario must negotiate a…
Timber wolf attacks Key Lake worker
It was anything but a happy new year for Fred Desjarlais, an employee of
Suppliers Roundup (January 17, 2005)
SNC-Lavalin helps get Goro going…
Peruvian kidnapping resolved
A Peruvian journalist, Duber Mauriola, who was recently kidnapped from a small town in northern Peru, has been released by his abductors.
NA Palladium posts record output at Lac des les
The Lac des les mine, near Thunder Bay, Ont., produced 20,000 oz. more palladium in 2004 than in 2003.
Progress at Magistral
Vancouver — The estimated size of the resource at
Rio Narcea fills in Salave (January 17, 2005)
Infill drilling by
Mixed results at Tyler’s Bahuerachi
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Lk Shore, Holmer tie knot
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