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Ross Middleton on boosting productivity, returns

“Productivity is the prime imperative for the mining industry of the decade or decades to come,” Ross Middleton, a partner with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), told attendees at Mining Magazine’s “Optimizing Mine…


Drill core from Balmoral Resources' Grasset nickel-copper-platinum group metals (PGM) project in Quebec. Credit: Balmoral Resources

Balmoral expands Grasset nickel-copper-PGM discovery

Balmoral Resources (TSX: BAR; US-OTC: BALMF) has more than doubled the strike length and depth of the high-grade Horizon 3 zone at its Grasset nickel-copper-platinum group metals (PGM) project in Quebec. Grasset is about 200 km north of…





Commentary: Steel demand cools

The following is an edited excerpt from the World Steel Association’s (worldsteel) “Short-range outlook for 2014 and 2015.” It forecasts that global apparent steel use will increase by 2% to 1,562 million tonnes in 2014 after…


Metalor gains ‘Fairmined Refiner’ status

The Colombia-based Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) has given refiner Metalor its ‘Fairmined Refiner’ designation, making the firm the first London Bullion Market Association (LBMA)-approved refiner to hold that status.


Fednav ships to serve Strange Lake

Quest Rare Minerals (TSX: QRM) has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Montreal-based Fednav to develop and deliver shipping solutions for the Strange Lake REE project in northeastern Quebec.


Roxgold awards underground mining contract

African Underground Mining Services (AUMS) has signed a four-year deal to provide a mining fleet and skilled labour for Roxgold’s (TSXV: ROG; US-OTC: ROGFF) Yaramoko gold project in Burkina Faso.



An educational sign on the Ebola virus at Aureus Mining's New Liberty open-pit gold project in northeastern Liberia. Credit: Aureus Mining

Aureus Mining beats the odds in Liberia

Despite two nearly back-to-back civil wars in the 1990s that left Liberia in ruins and over a quarter of a million people dead, and now the Ebola outbreak that has killed 1,830 people in the country already this year, Aureus Mining (TSX: AUE;…



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