A combination of low grades and machine troubles led to a difficult quarter for gold miner Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T, AZK-X), but the company reports that it expects to return production to normal as it embarks on extensive exploration work.
Nunavut-focused explorer Sabina Gold & Silver (SBB-T) has signed a definitive agreement to sell its 100%-owned Hackett River silver-zinc project, located near the Bathurst Inlet in southern Nunavut, to the Canadian arm of Swiss mining…
It’s not quite as exciting as a new mine built from scratch on a substantial mineral discovery but, in dollar terms, the recent expansions announced by majors active in eastern Canada all add up significant economic activity.
The Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC) has co-awarded Jim O’Rourke of Copper Mountain Mining (CUM-T) and Robert Pease of Terrane Metals as 2010’s “Mining Person of the Year.”
British Columbia’s Quesnel Trough could see heightened exploration this year now that several international majors have taken an interest.
ArcelorMittal (MT-N) is spending $2.1 billion to expand its Mont-Wright mining complex and Port-Cartier pellet plant near Fermont in northern Quebec.
Harry Barr grew up on a family farm in Ontario’s Ottawa Valley and studied agribusiness at Guelph University, but when his uncle Mel asked him to help run a placer gold mine in the jungles of Colombia, a future career in mining became set in…
BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-L) has given a thumbs-up to its Misery open-pit project at the Ekati diamond mine near Yellowknife, N.W.T.
Mining projects in British Columbia’s northwest are another step closer to tapping into the provincial grid after the federal government gave the environmental go-ahead for the Northwest Transmission Line.
Vancouver – NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-N) held its first live broadcast of the company’s annual general meeting of shareholders on May 25, with long-time chief executive officer Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse providing a pleasing roundup of the…
A high-grade intercept lifted Claude Resources’ (CRJ-T, CGR-X) shares on a day when the yellow metal itself was climbing high. With gold reaching the US$1,525 per oz. level, news of Claude’s intercept lifted the company’s shares by 3% or…
Since graduating with a geology degree from the University of Alberta in 1988, John Williamson has founded ten junior resource and mining companies with assets across Canada, Western Australia, South America and Africa. He has helped raise over…
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