Cleanup under way at Los Frailes mine
A tailings dam failure at the Los Frailes mine, about 30 km northwest of Sevilla, Spain, has flooded a large area of farmland, and Spanish authorities are considering pressing charges.The mine, owned …
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MINING IN CANADA — Eastfield, Ascot prepare to follow up BC discovery
Eastfield Resources (ETF-V) and partner Ascot Resources (AOT-V) believe an early-stage, grassroots copper-molybdenum discovery in the Babine Lake area of central British Columbia could have the making…
MINING IN CANADA — Athabasca uranium play heats up as Kennecott teams with JNR — Geophysical programs planned for eight unconformity targets in northern Saskatchewan
Now that Kennecott Canada Exploration has joined the exploration play in northern Saskatchewan, investors are showing renewed interest in the properties held there by JNR Resources (JNN-V).In February…
Intiedougou takes shape
When Ottawa-based junior Orezone Resources (ORZ-T) took on a gold exploration property in southwestern Burkina Faso, it had no clear idea where to find gold. But on top of that, it didn’t even know wh…
NEW MINES ROUNDUP — Green light for uranium mines
The Cigar Lake uranium project in northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin — a joint-venture held 48.7% by Cameco (CCO-T) and 36.4% by French-owned Cogema Resources — has received conditional approva…
PEOPLE — Diamond Fields Int’l (May 04, 1998)
Trevor Schultz and Kevin Dardis appointed directors.
OBITUARY — Murray Pezim
Murray Pezim, a Vancouver-based stock promoter best known for his role in the discovery of the Hemlo gold camp in Ontario and the Eskay Creek gold mine in British Columbia, has died. He was 77.Born in…
Falco, Inco rivals in New Caledonia — Metallurgical technologies key to unlocking nickel potential
Not to be outdone by rival nickel producer Inco (N-T), which is advancing an enormous nickel-cobalt resource at the Goro property in New Caledonia, Falconbridge (FL-T) has agreed to participate in the…
Orleans ships first wollastonite
Montreal-based Orleans Resources (OLS-T) has made its first commercial shipment of wollastonite concentrate from its new processing plant in Quebec’s St. Onge Twp., near Lac St.-Jean.The Montreal-base…
MINING IN CANADA — Kennecott cuts kimberlite at WO claim block in NWT
Kennecott is benefitting from its drilling efforts in the Lac de Gras region of the Northwest Territories.A program focused on the WO block has intersected an 82-metre-thick interval of volcaniclastic…
MINING IN CANADA — Cream exploring near Kaslo
A work program by Cream Minerals (CMA-V) is testing the Kaslo silver project in the Slocan mining district of southeastern British Columbia.The $660,000 program is aimed at testing the Cork South silv…
MINING IN CANADA — Development work places New Britannia back on track
First-quarter gold production at the New Britannia mine, situated 128 km east of Flin Flon, Man., has surpassed expectations by 7%. Moreover, cash costs continued to decline and underground drilling i…