Workers at Glencore’s Raglan nickel mine in Nunavik rejected the company’s latest offer this week, as a labour dispute that has halted most of the mine’s operations enters its third…
Production at Glencore’s (LSE: GLEN) Raglan nickel mine at Nunavik has been suspended as hundreds of unionized workers went on strike for the first time in 25 years on the…
Nunavik-based Raglan mine, owned by Glencore (LSE: GLEN), has asked Quebec’s Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity to appoint an independent mediator to facilitate discussions with the mine’s union…
Vancouver — An independent resource estimate for the Mesamax zone has verified the economic potential of the Expo-Ungava nickel-copper-platinum-palladium property in northern Quebec.Glenn Mullan, pre…
In 2002, mining investment in Quebec amounted to roughly $752 million, a significant drop from the $1.2 billion recorded in 2001. The decline can be explained mostly by the completion of three major m…
Vancouver — Canada’s junior exchange drifted lower during the lacklustre report period ended April 15. The S&P-TSX Venture Exchange composite index fell 3.78 points, or 0.36% of its value, to close a…
In the late 1970s, Alex Davidson, then a student at McGill University, was attending the annual PDAC convention in Toronto when he stuck his head inside the Canadian room at the Royal York Hotel to ca…
After losing ground to their trendy laterite cousins a few years ago, nickel sulphide deposits — hosts of the giant Sudbury, Voisey’s Bay and Norilsk orebodies — are back in fashion.Nickel sulphide …
The federal government has given $100,000 to Inuit-owned Nuvumiut Drilling so it can buy prospecting and drilling equipment. The move is designed to allow the Inuit of Salluit and Kangiqsujuaq in far-…
Canada’s mining industry has been a constructive contributor to our shared search for solutions to environmental challenges.In addition to representing the economic interests of your sectors, you [in …
The schedule said that in early December the Innu of Davis Inlet, in northern Labrador, could begin moving to the newly built town of Natuashish, 15 km west on the Labrador mainland.Whether that miles…
Higher sales volumes combined with newfound production from the Lomas Bayas mine in Chile to keep Falconbridge (FL-T) financially steady during the three months ended June 30.The company earned more t…