Houston Lake digs Kenora
SITE VISIT Kenora, ONT. — The rolling hills and quiet lakes outside of Kenora, Ont., offer up many an idyllic Canadian panorama. The casual Sunday…
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Plunging PGM prices force Lac des les shutdown
A dramatic drop in platinum and palladium prices has forced North American Palladium (PDL-T, PAL-x) to temporarily shut down its Lac des les mine, near Thunder Bay, Ont., which has been operating bel…
Noront CEO speaks out
In the midst of a proxy fight with a dissident shareholder, Noront Resources (NOT-V, NOSOF-o) has fired back with a positive scoping study for development of its Eagle One copper-nickel-platinum group…
Blue Note to close Caribou and Restigouche
Blue Note Mining (BN-T, BNMFF-o) is the latest miner to join the care and maintenance club after less than a year of commercial production at its Caribou and Restigouche zinc-lead mines in Bathurst, N…
Agnico-Eagle on track with Meadowbank for 2010 (October 27, 2008)
Gold-bearing Archean greenstone belts were first discovered in the Baker Lake area of what is now Nunavut in the 1980s. Fast-forward 28 years and Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM-T, AEM-n) is in the midst of b…
Discovering Yukon’s Underworld (October 27, 2008)
Underworld Resources (UW-V, UNDWF-o) recently released promising results from three drill holes at its White Gold property, in the Yukon.
Fortress looks to Russia’s Far East
Getting to Fortress Minerals’ (FST-V, FTMNF-o) flagship Svetloye property, in Russia’s Far East, isn’t easy. The gold project lies 750 km west of Magadan, a port city on the sea of Okhotsk, where the …
Pacific Comox’s vision for Ryan Lake (October 24, 2008)
Matatchewan, Ont. A big old pile of crushed ore sits outside the mill at Pacifc Comox’s (PCM-V) Ryan Lake copper-…
Black clouds hang over First Majestic’s third quarter silver production
Vancouver – A particularly nasty wet season disrupted operations at First Majestic Silver’s (FR-T, FRMSF-O) three m…
Iamgold says Ecuador is moving closer to new mining law
Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-N) believes Ecuador’s recent referendum in which 63.9% of all voters supported a new constitu…
Rare earth discovery in Namibia intrigues Etruscan (October 24, 2008)
Etruscan Resources’ (EET-T) initial interest in exploring northern Namibia was to find iron oxide copper gold (IOCG…
Sherwood links high-grade areas at Kutcho
Vancouver Drill results from Kutcho’s Main zone continue to return high-grade copper intercepts for Sherwood Copp…