Many of the miners — or muckers, as those men who loaded the ore cars were called — came to Canada from Europe after the First and Second World Wars in search of a more peaceful life where one could earn an honest dollar, without…
A quartet of engineering students from the University of Waterloo took the top prize at the third annual National Mining Competition in Saskatoon in early November.
RED LAKE, ONTARIO — For the management team at newly minted Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM; US-OTC: LRTNF), picking up the past-producing Madsen gold project marked a return to a gold camp that has played a formative role in their…
U.S. equities are up for the fourth straight week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 60.81 points to 17,634.74, while the S&P 500 Index rose 7.9 points to a record high of 2,039.82. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 56.01 points to…
Thompson Creek Metals (TSX: TCM; NYSE: TC) is improving its operations and balance sheet, despite ending the third quarter in the red.
Just two days after the ink dried on a binding joint-venture agreement between Canadian gold miner AuRico Gold (TSX: AUQ; NYSE: AUQ; CGJ) and Carlisle Goldfields (TSX: CGJ; US-OTC: CGJCF) on the junior’s Lynn Lake project in Manitoba,…
Vancouver-based gold junior True Gold Mining (TSXV: TGM) likes to get things done quickly.
For the last six months, AuRico Gold (TSX: AUQ; NYSE: AUQ) has been sizing up Carlisle Goldfields (TSX: CGJ) and its Lynn Lake gold project in Manitoba.
The S&P/TSX Composite Index gained for the fourth straight week, up 77.51 points to close at 14,690.83. Gold and diversified miners both added 10 points, with the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index ending at 144.86 and the S&P/TSX Capped…
Primero Mining’s (TSX: P; NYSE: PPP) quarterly earnings took a hit after it wrote down the goodwill value of the acquisition of Brigus Gold.
Despite weaker-than-expected U.S. job numbers and accusations by Ukraine that Russia was sending tanks and soldiers across the border into the eastern part of the country, U.S. stock indexes still posted marginal gains. The Dow Jones Industrial…
On Oct. 23, 2014, the Government of Canada introduced its long-awaited legislation to mandate disclosure of public payments made by mining and oil & gas companies for the commercial development of oil, gas and minerals. The Extractive…
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