Sales of rough diamonds by the marketing arm of De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBRS-Q) netted the company a record US$2.8 billion for the first six months of 1997, an increase of 4.8% over the same peri…
Two ambitious exploration programs in the greenstones east of Night Hawk Lake, about 50 km east of Timmins, Ont., appear to be paying off for Cross Lake Minerals (CRN-V), East West Resource (EWR-V) an…
The author is project manager of Keep Mining in Canada, a campaign designed to increase awareness of the importance of mining in this country.Now we start again.The election is over and there are new …
Canadian production of refined copper, nickel and potash increased in April, compared with the same period last year. However, output of gold, silver, lead, zinc, primary copper, asbestos and salt was…
A total of 149 macros and 252 microdiamonds was recovered by caustic fusion analysis on a 137.1-kg sample obtained from 13 drill holes that intersected kimberlite dykes in a restricted 1-sq.-km area o…
In the late 1960s I was working in the engineering department of Agnico Eagle Mines’ Eagle Gold mine, a new project near the town of Joutel in northwestern Quebec.The mine manager there, Harry Pike, w…
Kennecott Minerals has signed a letter of intent with a private company to develop a copper mine in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas.According to terms of the deal, Kennecott, a subsidiary of Ri…
The government of Uzbekistan plans to sell a 40% stake in the Almalyk mining and metallurgical plant, one of the largest copper producers of the former U.S.S.R.The plant produced 100,000 tonnes of cop…
revisedA pipe-like enlargement, or blow, along the Sugarbird fissure, which forms part of the Klipspringer project in South Africa’s Northern Transvaal province, is estimated to contain 90,000 tonnes …
A new estimate of the gold resource at its Baley gold project in far eastern Russia has enabled Armada Gold (AAU-T) to boost the projected production grade by about 20%.The new resource for the Taseev…
A recently discovered ore zone could boost profits at the Turk gold mine in Zimbabwe, reports owner Casmyn (CMYN-Q).The new area, which was identified in the western portion of the mine, is a lens of …
High-paying jobs are still hard to come by in Canada, no matter how optimistic economists are that better days are just around the corner. So when a resource project comes along with potential to keep…
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