Mining consultancy firm SRK has appointed Michael Armitage as chairman.Armitage, a geologist by profession, has worked in the industry for 25 years, 20 of them at SRK. He replaces SRK’s chairman of 15 years, Nick Rigby.”I bring to the role an…
Trevali Renewable Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trevali Resources (tv-t), has awarded Peru-based TECSUR a contract to build the power transmission line from its Santander silver-lead-zinc mine to the Peruvian national grid, Sistema…
Irvin Joseph (Bud) Laporte (b. 1933) died on Jan. 12, at the age of 78, in North Bay, Ont., after a battle with cancer. He was the husband of Shirley (predeceased) and a father and grandfather.Laporte started working in the diamond drilling…
Eaglecrest Explorations (eel-v) turned in some interesting results from a first-pass sampling program at its Fredonia gold project in Colombia. The highlight assay returned 8.25 grams gold per tonne and 47.5 grams silver per tonne and came from…
With platinum prices expected to climb further in 2011, Canada’s biggest platinum producer had little trouble raising $348 million to help pay for the first phase of its Eastern Limb development plan in South Africa. In an equity…
If Cliffs Natural Resources (clf-n) is successful in its bid for Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines (clm-t) and its Bloom Lake mine on the south end of the Labrador Trough, it will in one stroke acquire a world-class orebody containing high-grade…
Western Copper (wrn-t) says its Casino gold-copper project in the Yukon can process more ore than previously believed. The company has been in the midst of updating its prefeasibility study from 2008 ever since it released a significantly…
Results for the remaining 21 holes completed during a first pass of drilling on the Julia vein target confirm Mirasol Resources (mrz-v) has made a significant high-grade silver discovery at its wholly owned Virginia project in Argentina’s Santa…
The proposed merger of Inmet Mining (imn-t, iemf-o) and Lundin Mining (lun-t), which both companies describe as a “merger of equals,” would create a large base-metal producer in Canada that would replace the likes of those that Canada has lost…
Golden Dawn Minerals (gom-v) wants to breathe mining life back into Greenwood, B.C., for the third time. The small town of some 600 souls in south-central B.C. saw its fortunes swell at the turn of the last century and again in the 1950s, both…
Rio Alto Mining (rio-v) is raising $50 million in a private placement to fund its La Arena copper-gold project 480 km northwest of Lima in Peru.A syndicate of underwriters led by GMP Securities and including Scotia Capital, Clarus Securities…
The second week of 2011 was a breathtaking one in the Canadian base metals scene, with three substantial deals.
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