Copper

ECU Silver finds major vein

With its shift from production to exploration at the Valardena property in Durango, Mexico, ECU Silver Mining (EC…





BY GWEN PRESTONNorthern Freegold Resources vice-president Susan Craig and president Bill Harris with a project geologist in the Nucleus/Revenue core shed at the Freegold Mountain project, in the Yukon.

Perseverance pays off for Northern Freegold

SITE VISIT Carmacks, Yukon — Bill Harris has been prospecting around Freegold Mountain since the 1960s. For 20 years Bill, his father Glen, and their good friend, Fritz Gruder, worked…


BY SUSAN KIRWINFrom left: First Metals chairman Jay Jaski; director George Salamis; Romeo D'Angela of Novadan Capital; First Metals CEO Richard Williams; Bob Romanyk of Private Equity Capital; and Sylvain Lessard, First Metals' mine manager at the Fabie Bay project. Fabie Bay was mined by Noranda in the 1970s and First Metals plans to bring the operation back into production sometime this fall.

First Metals set to be a miner

SITE VISIT Rouyn-Noranda, Que. — First Metals (FMA-T) is nearing the finish line in its race to bring the past-producing Fabie Bay open-pit and underground copper mines in Quebec’s Noranda…


Stephen Stakiw

Northgate’s Ke-mess

Vancouver — After a prolonged environmental review process, a joint federal-provincial panel has recommended against development of the Kemess North copper-gold deposit, in north-central British Colu…







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