Whitehorse, Yukon – It’s the stuff of prospectors’ dreams. Climb up a hillside in a little-explored area and stumble upon enough visible gold to justify all those years of trudging around alone in the bush.
Eagle Hill Exploration’s (EAG-V) has its first resource estimate in for its Windfall Lake project in Quebec’s Abitibi region and the grades found were better than what it was expecting.
Pierre Lassonde, the current chairman of Franco-Nevada (FNV-T, FNV-N) and one of Canada’s most successful mining entrepreneurs, has once again stepped up in a big way as a major benefactor for a Canadian university.
Dawson City, Yukon – Few companies embody the modern Yukon gold rush more than Golden Predator (GPD-T).
Auriga Gold (AIA-V) is looking to bring new life back to the Maverick Gold project 65-km northeast of Flin Flon, Manitoba.
Infill drilling this year at Seabridge Gold’s (SEA-T) Courageous Lake property in Canada’s Northwest Territories is helping upgrade inferred resources to higher categories and increasing the size and grade of the deposit, the company says,…
Investors hoping to cash in on Taseko Mines’ second bid to develop the Prosperity copper-gold mine (“New Prosperity”) should think back a year. At that time, despite assurances from the company and its president that the original Prosperity…
Royal Nickel (RNX-T) is targeting first production at its Dumont nickel project in western Quebec by the end of 2015 and once in full production expects it to be among the top five sulfide nickel assets in the world based on yearly nickel…
Nearly 20 years ago, when Dia Met and BHP Billiton announced the discovery that would become the Ekati diamond mine, there were more than a few skeptics who doubted that…
Vancouver – A long-awaited deal on EU debt helped push the S&P TSX Venture Composite Index up 96.98 points in the Oct. 24-28 period to reach 1,629.89 points after five straight days of gains. Volume was also up somewhat, with an average of…
The second of nine new vessels to be operated by Canpotex through a joint venture with Copenhagen-based U-Sea Bulk has been delivered, and is expected to arrive at the Neptune Terminals facility in Vancouver’s North Shore on Nov. 7 to load…
During the 1970s I worked at the Geco copper mine in Manitouwadge, Ont. With 650 employees, it was about half the size of a big diamond mine in Canada today.
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