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Capstone unveils Minto expansion plan
A lot has changed since Vancouver-based Capstone Mining (CS-T) kick-started production at its Minto open-pit copper mine, 240 km north of Whitehorse, Yukon, in 2007. At the time the mine had an eight-year life and a throughput rate of 1,600…
Haileybury School of Mines celebrates centenary
More than 200 alumni, faculty and friends gathered for a June weekend to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the Haileybury School of Mines (HSM), including luminaries such as Mining Technologies International president and CEO Bob…
GTA gets the grade north of Superior
GTA Resources (GTA-V) caught the market’s attention in one fell swoop earlier this year with drill results from its aptly named Northshore gold project on the north shore of Lake Superior.The intercept spanned 150 metres grading 3.21…
New Gold starts up New Afton in BC
New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-N) brings online a fourth mine with the timely start up of its New Afton gold-copper mine, near Kamloops, B.C.
TSX and TSX Venture warrants
The following are the warrants of mining-related stocks trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:
[Update] Orbite keeps moving
Orbite Aluminae (ORT-T) has been busy proving its patented technology to extract alumina from clays, bauxite, and red mud works. It now says it’s capable of recovering individual rare earths as a byproduct from its high-purity…
Nighthawk looks to soar on NWT gold
Contrary to popular belief significant gold finds in the far north don’t begin and end with the Yukon.
Western Potash takes novel approach
When Western Potash Corp. (WPX-T) starts commercial production at its Milestone potash mine in 2016 it will draw much of its water from treated sewage effluent from the city of Regina, about 30 km away.
Commentary: More on cost overruns on capital development
I am an advocate of change for the better, as well as the preservation those things that work well, but there seems to be a lack of good balance between the two these days when it comes to project development in mining. It seems to me that too…
Mixed results for Ethos Gold’s first pass at Betty
VANCOUVER — The first drill program on Ethos Gold’s (ECC-V) Betty project in the Yukon has yielded both encouraging gold discoveries and numerous blanks.
Alexandria finds new gold in the same old place
Some places just never go out of style.