Goldcorp gets permit for Mexican mine (January 23, 2007)
Vancouver – Goldcorp (g-t, gg-n) has received construction permits ahead of schedule for what is expected to be Mex…
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Mining sector faces human resource crisis: Conference Board (January 23, 2007)
Vancouver – The Conference Board of Canada says the domestic mining sector is challenged by declining mineral reser…
Brilliant grows new nickel zone at Lanfranchi
Vancouver – Further wide, high-grade nickel intercepts at the recently discovered Deacon zone has Brilliant Mining …
Zinc-copper find in Matagami boosts Donner shares
A new zinc-copper discovery at the Matagami project in Quebec sent Donner Metals (DON-V) shares up more than 33% to…
Tyler pulls more holes at Bahuerachi
Eight recent reverse-circulation holes drilled by Tyler Resources (TYS-V) at the Bahuerachi copper deposit in south…
Bauxite shipments stopped as violence in Guinea grows
As the general strike in Guinea escalates in size and violence shipments of bauxite from Compagnie des Bauxites de …
Event: Lawrence to talk Red Lake at next Toronto CIM
Simon Lawrence, president and chief executive of Gold Eagle Mines (GEA-T), will present a talk titled “Red Lake: Hi…
High-grade nickel hole launches Starfire (January 22, 2007)
Vancouver — A hot drill intercept from its Langmuir nickel project near Timmins, Ont., gave Starfire Minerals (SFR-V, STFMF-O) a major market boost recently, as investors leapt on the junior explorer…
Shear recovers its largest diamond to date from Churchill
While results remain pending for a 19.5-tonne mini-bulk sample collected from a network of four new kimberlite dyke discoveries on the Churchill joint-venture project in eastern Nunavut, further micro…
Iberian to reopen Aguas Tenidas
Seville, Spain — Iberian Minerals (IBZ-V, IZNFF-O) president and CEO Peter Miller was “in the jungles of Venezuela,” where the junior had acquired a number of gold properties, when he was first appro…
Trigon shifts to uranium
Vancouver — Shareholders of the newly renamed Trigon Uranium (TEL-V, TELWF-O) have to be happy with its diversification from diamonds into uranium earlier this year, especially in light of surging pr…
Inco slows production in Indonesia
Dry weather has forced Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO-N) subsidiary CVRD Inco to cut weekly nickel output by about 130 tonnes at its Indonesia unit because the reservoir levels at its hydroelectric p…