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Construction could begin by next May on an open-pit gold and silver mine, 45 miles west of Bathurst, N.B. The federal government has kicked in $5.4 million in the form of loan insurance to help cover …

Elliot Lake was a boom town in 1956, the impetus for which was essentially the United States’ need for a secure supply of the yellow powder that had so convincingly and tragically ended the Second Wor…

Canamax Resources is growing at an impressive clip. Last year the Bell Creek mine, in northern Ontario, shipped its maiden dore bar. This year, its Ketza River project, in the Yukon, and the Kremzar d…

Canada’s third tailings re-treatment project is scheduled to start up in Yellowknife this May. Between June 15 and Aug 28 last year, owner Giant Yellowknife Mines ran a pilot plant operation to find t…

The following criteria define a junior mining company: * Neither a producing company nor the recipient of significant income from production or from some other business venture. * Exploration funding …

It’s been a while coming, but it finally appears that this will be the year St Andrew Goldfields will put its Stock Twp. property into production. Reconnaissance surface drilling first identified the …

Measured reserves of fewer than 130,000 tons might seem a touch on the light side for anyone to start talking about a mine. But Skyline Resources is more than just talking about that reserve figure fo…

Ontario’s first zinc mine since the Kidd Creek operation came into production in the 1960s should be in full production by the end of the first quarter. Minnova decided late in 1986, shortly after the…

Here’s a curious twist. U.S. energy producers ear that “the Canadians” might grab a larger piece of the U.S. energy market. (This must be a reversal of the wolf sweeping down on the fold.) Their conce…

With the proliferation of flow-through financing, some exploration companies have found it nearly impossible to find a drill rig. In the winter drilling season last year, at least one junior company, …

Harnischfeger’s new and massive dredge floats on superlatives (and water, of course): largest; most powerful; its 50-cu-yd clamshell bucket can plop immense mucky loads into a 6,000- cu-yd companion s…

At the turn of the century, gold nuggets were found on the shore of a lake 60 miles northwest of North Bay, Ont. Four decades passed before anyone formally mined the deposit. That operation, known as …