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Hecla, Triumph strike deal

A deal between Hecla Mining (HL-N) and Vancouver junior Triumph Gold (TAU-V) will give Hecla ownership of the Guariche gold property in Bolivar state, Venezuela.


Mining survives in Chile

The Chilean government recently proposed a bill to impose a government royalty on mining companies primarily producing copper in Chile, over and above corporate income tax. Fortunately, the bill did not pass, though it may yet be re-introduced.



Lew Parres scholarship

A scholarship fund has been established in memory of Lew Parres (1915-2004), a consulting geologist and entrepreneur who spent 75 years in mining, mostly in Manitoba.


States’ rights

The State of Michigan has passed a law regulating mining of non-ferrous metals, one that Governor Jennifer Granholm says will be “the toughest set of mining regulations” in the United States.


Grinding circuit breakthrough

The discovery that ball mill circuit performance is not controlled by a single “efficiency” but rather by two distinct and active efficiencies was first proposed by Robert McIvor in 1987 in his McGill University thesis. Now, validation of his theo…


PDAC questions Ontario bill

The Prospectors & Developers Association (PDAC) has made submissions to hearings into Bill 97, which proposes that resource companies intending to extract natural resources from First Nations traditional lands in northern Ontario must negotiate a…


Timber wolf attacks Key Lake worker

It was anything but a happy new year for Fred Desjarlais, an employee of Cameco‘s (CCO-T) Key Lake uranium operations in northern Saskatchewan.



Peruvian kidnapping resolved

A Peruvian journalist, Duber Mauriola, who was recently kidnapped from a small town in northern Peru, has been released by his abductors.


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