New mines face labour crunch
One need look no further than the Internet recruitment pages of some of the bigger mines under development in North America to gauge the gravity of the labour shortage in the mining sector….
Teck Resources Limited
Copper Fox hunts for cash
Calgary-based
TSX Debentures (December 26, 2005)
Abacus buys Afton back-in rights
A formal agreement with
Chinese interests to fund Petaquilla development
Inmet Mining (IMN-T) and Teck Cominco (TEK.SV.B-T, TCKBF-O) would be bought out of their interests in the Petaquill…
People (December 19, 2005)
Marathon on its way to a new resource
Marathon, Ont. — In the Port Coldwell mafic complex in north-central Ontario, exploration by
Copper Fox raising cash for Schaft Creek
Calgary-based Copper Fox Metals (CUU-V) will try to raise $3.5 million in flow-through and non-flow-through funds t…
Sabina’s number up at Hackett River (December 08, 2005)
Thunder Bay junior Sabina Silver (SBB-V) has a new resource figure for the Hackett River base metal deposit in west…
Temex hits gold and enters deal on diamonds
Preliminary results from Temex Resources’s (TME-V) four diamond drill holes at its Whitney Township property look p…
Yukon Zinc in planning mode at Wolverine
Whitehorse, Yukon — The old saying that “mines are not found, but made” doesn’t always hold true, and can be wishful thinking in cases where deposits have too many flaws for engineers to overcome. Wh…
Searching for ‘rocks’ in rolling Arctic
Diamonds North leads juniors in exploration…