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The historic MacLellan headframe at Carlisle Goldfields' Lynn Lake gold project in Manitoba.  Credit: Carlisle Goldfields

Two suitors court Carlisle

Just two days after the ink dried on a binding joint-venture agreement between Canadian gold miner AuRico Gold (TSX: AUQ; NYSE: AUQ; CGJ) and Carlisle Goldfields (TSX: CGJ; US-OTC: CGJCF) on the junior’s Lynn Lake project in Manitoba,…


At Pure Gold Mining's historic Madsen gold property in northwestern Ontario, from left: Darin Labrenz, president and CEO; Blaine Monaghan, director of investor relations; Phil Smerchanski, director of geoscience; Sean Tetzlaff, CFO; Lenard Boggio, director; and Darren O'Brien, vice-president of exploration.  Photo by Matthew Keevil.

Pure Gold joins Red Lake’s ‘exploration renaissance’

RED LAKE, ONTARIO — For the management team at newly minted Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM; US-OTC: LRTNF), picking up the past-producing Madsen gold project marked a return to a gold camp that has played a formative role in their…



A truck at Teck Resources Fording River metallurgical coal project in southeastern B.C. Credit: Teck Resources

Met coal producers prepare for long price weakness

The benchmark price for metallurgical coal has dropped to a multi-year low of US$119 per tonne, and Moody’s Investors Service doesn’t see much relief for met coal producers until the second half of 2016. In the meantime, it warns,…


Trucks hauling material at Thompson Creek Metals' Mt. Milligan copper-gold mine in northern B.C. Photo by The Northern Miner

Thompson Creek piles up cash in Q3

Thompson Creek Metals (TSX: TCM; NYSE: TC) is improving its operations and balance sheet, despite ending the third quarter in the red.


Drill core from Foran Mining's flagship McIlvenna Bay polymetallic project.  Credit: Foran Mining

Foran’s positive PEA at McIlvenna Bay

Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM) has touched a milestone at its flagship McIlvenna Bay project in east-central Saskatchewan, with the completion of a promising preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the zinc-copper-gold-silver volcanogenic massive…



Located 40 km southeast of Guatemala City in southeastern Guatemala, Tahoe Resources' new Escobal underground silver mine operates at 3,500 tonnes per day. Credit: Tahoe Resources

Tahoe set to expand Escobal

VANCOUVER — Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO) has expanded  resources and tabled an updated feasibility study at its high-grade Escobal silver mine in southeast Guatemala, setting the stage for expanded silver production…


Suzanne Sloan's self-published memoir Mining the Memories.

Odds ‘n’ sods: Mining the Memories – Tough muckers

Many of the miners — or muckers, as those men who loaded the ore cars were called — came to Canada from Europe after the First and Second World Wars in search of a more peaceful life where one could earn an honest dollar, without…





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