With the start of concentrate production and the completion of mill commissioning ahead of schedule and under budget at Lundin Mining’s (TSX: LUN) high-grade Eagle mine in Michigan, the company is poised to start shipments of the first…
On Sept. 19 the MV Nunavik embarked on a historic 29-day journey from Deception Bay in Quebec’s far north to deliver 21,000 tonnes of nickel concentrate to Bayuquan, in China’s Liaoning province.
Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) companywide nickel production in the second quarter of 2014 was 61,600 tonnes, an 8.6% drop from the first quarter and 5.3% fall from the year-ago period. Vale says the decline mainly reflects the impact of four weeks…
Privately held Sudbury Platinum, in which project-generator Transition Metals (TSXV: XTM; US-OTC: TNTMF) holds a 57% stake and Royal Nickel (TSX: RNX; US-OTC: RNKLF) a 23% interest, has acquired 100% ownership of the Aer-Kidd project, 20…
Canada’s main stock index kicked off the Labour Day weekend with a 90.18-point gain to 15,625.73. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index edged up nearly 4 points to 202.10, helped by a US$6.40 per oz. jump in the gold spot price, which closed…
There’s no question that massive infrastructure will need to be built in order to mine the large chromite deposits in the Ring of Fire, says Noront Resources (TSXV: NOT) president and CEO Alan Coutts.
Balmoral Resources’ (TSX: BAR) latest drill results provide further confirmation of new high-grade discovery at its Grasset nickel-copper-PGM project in Quebec, 600 km northwest of Montreal.
The release of a prefeasibility study estimating that its Twin Metals copper-nickel-platinum group metals joint-venture project would cost US$2.8 billion to build sent Duluth Metals (TSX: DM; USOTC: DULMF) shares tumbling by more than 25%.
With a spinoff of its aluminum, manganese, nickel, silver and some of its non-core coal assets, BHP Billiton (LSE: BLT; ASX: BHP; NYSE: BHP) is driving to simplify its portfolio.
Sherritt International (TSX: S; US-OTC: SHERF) reported a $30.1-million net loss in the second quarter, largely due to its Ambatovy joint-venture nickel–cobalt project in Madagascar, where it reduced the project’s annual…
VANCOUVER — It’s been a busy couple of years for explorer Wellgreen Platinum (TSXV: WG; US-OTC: WGPLF) as it develops its wholly owned Wellgreen platinum group metals (PGM) deposit in Yukon’s southwest corner. The company has…
If you want to find nickel mineralization in Quebec, probably one good place to start is near the past-producing Marbridge nickel mine — the only mine to have produced nickel in the Abitibi region and the first nickel sulphide…
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