Production of oil from the Syncrude oil sands plant at Fort McMurray, Alta., set a record in March.Syncrude shipped a record 7.5 million barrels (just under 1.2 million cubic metres) in March, a daily…
Canadian coal producers are no strangers to tough markets, but recent weakness in the global economy has brought about a new set of competitive challenges and left some struggling for survival.As volu…
Special to The Northern MinerPetroleum producers are expected to pump another $25 billion into the Canadian oil sands over the next decade, even though the world is so soaked in oil that the Organizat…
Privately owned Pine Valley Coal will develop the Willow Creek project. Situated in the Peace River coal field of northeastern British Columbia, the project represents the first new coal mine to be de…
The youthful Australian unit of Cameco (CCO-T) will have a $4-million budget to work with this year, the largest since the company opened its Australian office in 1992.Cameco Australia, which maintain…
As in real estate, a good location adds value to a mineral property. And had the White Silver polymetallic project been situated in Canada’s Abibiti greenstone belt, rather than in Gansu, a province i…
The Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has issued a groundwater discharge permit to U.S. Energy (USEG-Q) for the Shootaring Canyon uranium mill in southeastern Utah.With this final permit,…
St. Louis-based Arch Coal (ACI-N) has sold a portion of its coal reserves at the Black Thunder mine near Gillette, Wyo., to its neighbour, Kennecott Energy.Kennecott, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto (RTP-N)…
It’s a far cry from the 1970s, when Saskatchewan’s Athabaska Basin was staked solid and dozens of companies had active uranium exploration programs, but a modest renewal of activity in the area has ac…
April 12, Western PacificApril 13, Blue GoldApril 13, TalismanApril 14, CassidyApril 14, RaindropApril 15, BradnerApril 15, Gold CanyonApril 16, BrennaApril 16, Colony PacificApril 16, EurekaApril 16,…
Vancouver-based Cumberland Resources (CBD-T) has increased resources at its Meadowbank gold project, 70 km north of Baker Lake in the new territory of Nunavut.Resources stand at 8.8 million tonnes ave…
Special to The Northern MinerNineteen ninety-nine is expected to be “the worst export year in a decade,” says a coal mining industry executive, and companies are going to be cutting, chopping and barg…
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