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New Canamin receives award for reclamation

Following a successful exploration season at the Huckleberry property last year, Vancouver, B.C.-based New Canamin Resources has received a provincial award for successful reclamation of an exploratio…



Mining Week in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick

The first Nova Scotia Mining Week is being staged this week under the theme “If it can’t be grown, it has to be mined.” Sponsors are the Chamber of Mineral Resources of Nova Scotia, the Mining Society…


Junior takes on Armenian venture

A junior company is being granted exploration and mine development rights covering the whole of Armenia, an area of almost 30,000 sq. km. If the assignment agreement is approved by regulators, Rome Re…



Wireline boosts exploratory drilling

Mining was flat in the 1950s. Longyear drillers and designers had accumulated more than 50 years of experience drilling in remote locations through a variety of bewildering geological formations. The …



Cyprus options Queenston bet near Kirkland

The Canadian exploration unit of a major U.S. company has stepped in to fill the shoes of Battle Mountain Canada on the Amalgamated Kirkland property near Kirkland Lake, Ont. Cyprus Canada, a unit of …


Updated version tells tale of diamond core drill

To the diamond drill fraternity, the story of the invention of the core drill in 1863 is a familiar one. For those unfamiliar with the story, it bears retelling. In 1857, the project of drilling a rai…


Glamis Gold places 1.25 million shares

Glamis Gold (TSE) has entered into an agreement with Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon to place 1,250,000 common shares at a price of US$8.625 per share for gross proceeds of $10.8 million. This sale is in…


Wheels of production beginning to turn

Although the recession has been termed “officially” ended, we in the mining services industry can find little comfort in recent statements to this effect from politicians and economists, neither of wh…


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