Reverse-circulation drilling is under way on the Bombore and Somita properties in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The work consists of 150 holes over 15,000 metres. The concessions are two of four held in …
It is a good thing that mechanization has arrived in mines, as I don’t know where we would find people to muck out by hand today. The comparison of the use of the load-haul-dump machine versus mucking…
The Bureau of Mines in the U.S. is experimenting with a new in situ method of mining oxide copper from small, low-grade deposits. Advantages over conventional open-pit and underground methods include …
An initial drilling program of 15,000 ft. was planned by Golden News Resources (TSE) for its San Antonio gold property in Sonora state. Field work has identified two major east-west-trending structura…
Gold reserves at the 68%-owned Afema property of Eden Roc Minerals (TSE) in Ivory Coast have increased to 1.4 million oz. from 804,000 as a result of recent drilling. Currently, deep drilling is being…
The Mexican epithermal precious metal province coincides with the Sierra Madre Occidental that covers western Mexico from the state of Sonora, just below the border with the U.S., south to the Neovolc…
Base metal producer Asarco (NYSE) recently completed its transaction with Grupo Industrial Minera Mexico (Gimmex), combining Mexico Desarrollo Industrial Minero (Medimsa) into a new public company kno…
The mines of “El Real de Minas de Nuestra Senora de la Limpia Concepcion de Guadalupe de los Alamos de Catorce,” in the state of San Luis Potosi, were discovered in 1772 and, until they went out of bu…
On display in the Vancouver office of John Brock are several huge tusks of the woolly mammoth, a prehistoric elephant that lumbered across the Yukon until shifting climatic conditions drove it into ex…
Alberta-listed Canadian Mining Resources (ASE) can earn up to a half interest in the Lynx Lake gold property, northeast of La Ronge, Sask. Exploration on the 1,944-hectare property has identified seve…
Vancouver-based junior Formation Capital (VSE) expects to proceed with a prefeasibility study of its Black Pine project in Lemhi Cty., Idaho. Reverse circulation drilling is currently evaluating coppe…
Development work and marketing of the mining automation technologies of Noranda Minerals will be undertaken by Societe des Technologies Appliquees du Saguenay (STAS). Noranda says its agreement with S…
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