Falconbridge has shutdown its Kidd Creek smelter and refinery in Timmins, Ont., following a breakdown in union negotiations that prompted the plant’s 750 workers to walk off the job.Workers at the bas…
With results from recent fieldwork in hand, Rex Diamond Mining (RXD-T) is preparing for an airborne magnetic survey in the Tenoumer region of Mauritania, West Africa.The company collected 3,000 sample…
Partners Almaden Resources (AMH-V) and Troymin Resources (TYR-M) will carry out a drill program on the Prospector Mountain gold-copper porphyry property, 240 km northwest of Whitehorse, Y.T.The proper…
Positive results from a sampling program have prompted the Australian partner of Consolidated Trillion Resources (TLQ-T) and Nickelodeon Minerals (NKM-V) to carry out a 500-tonne bulk-sampling program…
The University of Toronto will host the 10th annual Canadian Mining Games next spring in conjunction with Mining Millennium 2000, which takes place from March 5-10, 2000.The games will involve teams o…
Gerard Edwards appointed director.
Daniel Ziehlke appointed president and director; Thomas Frohlinger appointed secretary-treasurer and director; P.J. Chornoby and S.M. Francis appointed directors.
The engineering and construction arm of Kvaerner has been awarded a US$1.5-million contract to expand the Pirdop copper smelter in Bulgaria.The company will increase anode copper production at the sme…
Kennecott Canada Exploration has signed separate deals with NovaGold Resources (NRI-T) to earn majority interests in the Caribouand Anvil Creek gold projects in Alaska’s Fairbanks and Nome districts, …
Drilling by Romarco Minerals (R-T) continues to intersect high-grade gold mineralization at the Red Rock property in western Nevada.Thirteen angle holes drilled into the discovery area extended known …
Sudbury, Ont.-based El-Equip has won a tender to provide an underground communications system to the Jinning No. 3 coal mine in China.With production of 5 million tonnes of coal per year and a life ex…
Armand Beaudoin, who played a major role as a vendor in the Indonesian staking rush following the gold “discovery” of Bre-X Minerals in the mid-1990s, has died.His career as a prospector began in nort…
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