Platmin hires MCC as contractor for Pilanesberg
South African-focused platinum miner Platmin (PPN-T, PLNLF-O) has hired MCC Contracts to conduct open-pit mining at its Pilanesberg mine.
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North American Palladium settles crusher litigation
North American Palladium (PDL-T, PAL-X) has settled a six-year-old dispute with its insurer regarding a crusher failure at its Lac des les platinum group metals mine, 85 km north of Thunder Bay, Ont.
Timmins Gold gets San Francisco production-ready (August 11, 2008)
A new crusher is on the way to Timmins Gold’s (TMM-V, TMGOF-O) San Francisco heap-leach open-pit operation in Sonora state, Mexico, where the company is getting ready to restart production at the past…
Delayed startup for Equinox
VANCOUVER–It’s been an up-and-down past few months for Equinox Minerals (EQN-T, EQMIF-O) as it tries to get its Lumwana copper, in Zambia, project into production.
TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE JULY 29-AUG. 1
Despite another week that saw more than 300 new lows versus only four new highs, the S&P-TSX Venture Index managed to creep up 52 points during the truncated July 29-Aug. 1 trading session. The in…
U. S. MARKETS JULY 29-AUG. 4
The main U. S. stock indices were up during the July 29-Aug. 4 trading session, buoyed by a falling oil price. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 153 points, or 1.4%, to 11,284; the Standard and Po…
Thermo Fisher snags award for new XRF analyzer
Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO-N) has been awarded the R&D 100 award for technological innovation for the company’s handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer.
Editorial: Teck, Goldcorp, find there’s no place like home
With Canadian miners running into all sorts of problems overseas dealing with greedy and at times openly hostile governments, assets back home in the Great White North are looking better each year, ev…
COMMENTARY
— In July, the Ontario government announced plans to bar development in about half of the province’s boreal forest. The following is a letter from Ontario Mining Association President Chris Hodgson t…
SouthGobi Energy’s coal resource soars
Shares of SouthGobi Energy Resources (SGQ-V, SGQRF-O) vaulted $1.90 apiece on news that the company’s total measured and indicated surface resource of coal in southern Mongolia has grown by 73% to 258…
Maudore gets boost
VANCOUVER — A new set of high-grade gold results from the Comtois project, in western Quebec, gave Maudore Minerals’ (MAO-V, MAOMF-O) share price a lift recently.
Yukon-Nevada eyes Ketza revival
WHITEHORSE, YUKON — Yukon- Nevada Gold (YNG-T, YNGFF-O) has cut one of its best intercepts to date at its Ketza River property, about 125 km northeast of Whitehorse, Yukon. The market thanked Yukon-N…