Is a Cassiar Revival in Sight?
SITE VISIT Cassiar, B.C. — For more than 10 years, Cassiar was a ghost town. The northern B.C. town had thrived on an asbestos mine for 40 years but in…
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Canadian Royalties Dashes Ahead With Nunavik
SITE VISIT Kangiqsujuaq, Que. — A stone figure peers down at the cluster of tents and stacked crates of drill core samples at Canadian Royalties’ (CZZ-T, CRYAF-O) Mequillon camp, part…
Quebec Miners Clean Up Tainted Past
Kangiqsujuaq, Que. — At first glance, a sizable heap of old rusty barrels on the perimeter of Canadian Royalties’ (CZZ-T, CRYAF-O) Expo camp in Nunavik, Que., looks like a mini garbage dump.
Yukon Zinc in $140M Float
Yukon Zinc (YZC-V, YZCCF-O) has announced a $140-million financing for its Wolverine zinc project in the southeastern Yukon.
Alberta Star Intersects Base Metals, Silver at Echo Bay
Alberta Star Development (ASX-V, ASXSF-O) has intersected multiple zones of base metal and silver mineralization on a prospect near the old Echo Bay silver mine on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake…
Donner cuts more high-grade zinc at Matagami
Vancouver – Drilling by Matagami project partners Donner Metals (DON-V, DONFF-O) and Xstrata (XSRAF-O, XTA-L) has t…
Campbell Resources banks on Chibougamau
SITE VISIT Chibougamau, Que. — Like a phoenix, Campbell Resources (CCH-T, CBLRF-O), which emerged from the ashes of creditor protection in March, is hoping to reach new heights at Chibougamau,…
Uranium industry finds downside to the boom
The commodity boom is stretching mining resources to the limit across all sectors in the industry, but nowhere are shortages of manpower and equipment more pronounced than in the field of uranium expl…
Mantle hits zinc in Akie stepout
Vancouver — Stepout drilling by Mantle Resources (MTS-V, MTSZF-O) on its Akie zinc project, in northeastern B.C., hints at the expansion potential of the Main Cardiac Creek zone.
Otish basin seeing increased activity
Uranium exploration activity is at a 25-year high in the Otish sandstone basin of north-central Quebec. While that would probably still be true if one prospector was carrying a scintillometer, the dis…
JNR and Altius stake claims in Newfoundland
In one of the largest staking campaigns for uranium ever undertaken in eastern Canada, JNR Resources (jnn-v, jnrrf-o) has teamed with Altius Minerals (ALS-T, ATUSF-O) to stake more than 10,500 claims …
Pele drilling confirming Elliot Lake resource
Pele Mountain Resources (GEM-V, PMNHF-O) expects to see results of a scoping study on the company’s Elliot Lake uranium project soon, following a successful infill drilling campaign.