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…
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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…
North Star Diamonds, the 65%-owned subsidiary of Poplar Resources (PPX-V), has reached a preliminary agreement to option a 70% interest in its Swedish diamond project to Kelowna-based Dia Met Minerals…
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…
Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) has boosted by 8% the amount of open-pit reserves at its Bellavista gold project in Costa Rica.Proven and probable reserves are now estimated at 11.2 million tonnes grad…
World Wide Minerals (WWS-T) is undergoing a capital restructuring as it continues to pursue a lawsuit related to its derailed uranium projects in Kazakstan.World Wide has issued a private placement of…
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