Unfinished business at Prairie Creek
The paint dried over 30 years ago, but a “wet paint” sign still hangs on the metal railing that was erected to stop the uninitiated from falling into the crushing circuit below.
Canada
Victoria rules at Dublin Gulch in Yukon
It has been a three-year slog for Toronto-based Victoria Gold (VIT-V) at its wholly owned Dublin Gulch property 85 km from Mayo, Yukon, but the company is nearing the finish line to put its Eagle gold deposit into production by 2015.
Commentary: ‘Dutch Disease’ diagnosis oversimplistic and wrong
The following is an edited excerpt of a speech on the so-called “Dutch Disease,” made by Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, at the Spruce Meadows Round Table in Calgary on Sept. 7, 2012. For the full speech, including charts and…
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Toronto Stock Exchange
Queenston bulking up at Upper Beaver
Queenston Mining’s (QMI-T) flagship project in Kirkland Lake, Ont., is growing more robust. The company has results from 17 surface holes from its wholly owned Upper Beaver project, and is set to deliver more ounces in an upcoming…
Temex moves up on Whitney resource news
Temex Resources’ shares (TME-V) got a healthy boost after the junior publishing its first resource estimate for the Upper Hallnor portion of its Whitney gold project in Timmins, Ont. Its shares moved up 12% to close Sept. 7 at 24¢ apiece,…
Northern Gold takes more land around Garrison
Northern Gold Mining (NGM-V) is adding to its hefty land position in northeastern Ontario.
Detour Lake on track for production in early 2013
When Detour Gold’s (DGC-T) gold project in northern Ontario moves into production in the first quarter of next year — and eventually reaches an average production rate of 657,000 oz. gold a year, for a total of 14.1 million oz. over…
Integra cuts high grade at Lamaque
It has been a promising six months for Vancouver-based explorer Integra Gold (ICG-V). The company has completed a 30,000-metre diamond drill program at its wholly owned Lamaque gold project located in the Val-d’Or gold camp in…
Aurizon makes headway in Quebec
Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T, AZK-X) began September with a bang. On the same day it released higher-grade intercepts from its Hosco West and Heva deposits — part of the company’s feasibility-stage Joanna gold project, 20 km east of…
Hart gives Liberty a ray of hope
Less than two weeks after Timmins, Ont.-focused Liberty Mines (LBE-T) suspended production because of declining nickel prices, it posted a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Hart nickel deposit.
Noront hopes to soar with Eagle’s Nest
Toronto-based Noront Resources (NOT-V) is banking on a newly published feasibility study at its advanced-stage Eagle’s Nest polymetallic nickel-sulphide deposit — which also includes copper, platinum, palladium and gold — to…