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New deal rises at CCR

Unionized workers at Noranda’s Canadian Copper Refinery in Montreal have voted 83% in favour of a new, 3-year labour agreement.



Improving gravity thickeners

A research program in Australia delivered A$295 million in direct benefits to the minerals-processing industry over the past six years, based on an investment of about A$10 million.




A view of the Pediment deposit at Cortez Hills.

Major find in Battle Mountain trend

Discoveries by majors do not often receive the attention or accolades they deserve, as in the case of Cortez Hills in Nevada. Discovered by Placer Dome (PDG-T) near the end of 2002 while conducting mine-site exploration drilling…


Gold stocks lose out

There were modest gains in the U.S. stock markets over the report period May 26-June 1, with the S&P 500 index adding 8.15 points to close at 1,121.20 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average adding 85.03 points to finish at 10,202.65.


Bema gets Kupol assessment

Vancouver — The Kupol gold-silver project in the Chukotka region of northeastern Russia has received a positive preliminary economic assessment, Bema Gold (BGO-T) reports.


Ceramext plant gets go-ahead

Emgold’s subsidiary, Golden Bear Ceramics, will build a Ceramext pilot plant, designed to produce ceramic tiles and bricks from mine tailings. The process is currently at the bench-scale testing phase.


Room at the top

At the beginning of April this space was given over to an editorial entitled “Consolidation, or not,” which questioned whether there was much consolidation left to be done in the gold industry. Within an hour of our placing that column, Iamgold an…


Viceroy drills Gualcayamo

Vancouver — Early drilling by Viceroy Exploration (VYE-V) on its Gualcayamo gold project in west-central Argentina has returned positive results.


More gold for St. Jude

Vancouver — Drilling by St. Jude Resources (SJD-V) at its Benso project in western Ghana has delineated a trend of gold mineralization in the Subriso Block G zone over a strike length of 500 metres and to a depth exceeding 100…


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