Rubicon optimistic on Phoenix study
A positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) suggests Rubicon Minerals’ (TSX: RMX; US-OTC: RBYCF) once-troubled Phoenix gold project in northwestern Ontario could rise again. Trial mining…
Rambler Metals and Mining plc
Site visit: Rambler on track to meet targets at Ming by mid-year
DEER LAKE, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR — “Zero degrees and no wind, not bad for the middle of January,” Norman Williams, president and CEO of Rambler…
Can Rubicon’s Phoenix rise from the ashes?
The demise of Rubicon Minerals’ (TSX: RMX; US-OTC: RBYCD) Phoenix gold mine in Ontario’s Red Lake camp stunned the industry. Trial mining of the project’s…
Could microbes hold the key to more environmentally friendly mines?
Bioremediation became a buzzword for the Canadian mining industry in the 1970s and ’80s. Today, researchers at the University of Toronto’s Lassonde Institute of Mining…
The geology underlying the quest for minerals on Canada’s East Coast
VANCOUVER — The geology of eastern Canada largely owes itself to a series of events that began 480 million years ago, when the Iapetus Ocean (analogous…
Maritime offers streaming royalty to investors
Maritime Resources (TSXV: MAE) has gotten inventive with its financings to help advance its 100%-held Green Bay gold property in Newfoundland and Labrador. The junior has…
With $19M financing, PE Fund poised to take 63% stake in Rambler Metals
VANCOUVER — CEII Roma, a mining-focused fund based in the Cayman Islands and advised by private equity firm Plinian Capital, is offering to inject a…
Rambler Metals and Thundermin propose merger
Less than two months after a prefeasibility study showed that Rambler Metals & Mining (TSXV: RAB; LSE:RMM) could extend the life of its underground Ming copper-gold mine in Newfoundland’s Baie Verte region from six to 21 years, the…
Rambler adds 15 years to mine life at Ming
VANCOUVER — Rambler Metals & Mining (TSXV: RAB) is looking to upgrade its underground Ming copper-gold mine, 17 km east of the town of Baie Verte on the north-central coast Newfoundland, after positive results from a prefeasibility…
Rambler has big plans for Atlantic Canada
Since the start of commercial production in November 2012 at its first mine — the Ming copper–gold mine in Baie Verte, N.L. — Rambler Metals & Mining (TSXV: RAB; LSE: RMM) has generated $31 million in operating…
Thundermin and Rambler team up on Little Deer in Newfoundland
Thundermin Resources (TSX: THR) and Rambler Metals and Mining (TSXV: RAB; LSE-AIM: RMM) hope to bring Rambler’s expertise in bringing the past-producing Ming Ming copper-gold mine back into commercial production in northeastern…
Rambler’s Ming takes wing
The Ming copper-gold mine on Newfoundland’s Baie Verte Peninsula officially moved into commercial production on Nov. 1, and Rambler Metals and Mining (RAB-V, RMM-L) says the first 9,000 to 10,000 tonnes of copper concentrate will be…