The Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC) has named Richard Tremblay, VP and general manager at Taseko’s Gibraltar mine, as the 2018 Mining Person of the Year.
The 2018 award honours Tremblay’s dedication and leadership within the industry, ad…
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Phoenix, Arizona-headquartered Freeport-McMoran (FCX) has announced an agreement to sell its Kokkola cobalt refinery and related cobalt cathode precursor business to Begium’s Umicore for about $150-million, plus working capital at the time of close.
T…
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NYSE- and TSX-listed McEwen Mining has reached commercial production at its Gold Bar mine, which is under the supervision of its new Nevada general manager (GM), Jack Henris.
Henris joined McEwen from Goldcorp, where he was VP of mining and geotechnic…
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NYSE- and TSX-listed McEwen Mining has reached commercial production at its Gold Bar mine, which is under the supervision of its new Nevada general manager (GM), Jack Henris.
Henris joined McEwen from Goldcorp, where he was VP of mining and geotechnic…
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Gold major Newmont Goldcorp’s vision to create Quebec’s first interconnected “mine of the future” received a boost on Wednesday, when a C$3.5-million project to connect the Eleonore mine to a high-speed network was unveiled. The project, which is to be…
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TSX-V-listed Equinox Gold has sold its Elk Gold property, in British Columbia, to private explorer Bayshore Minerals for $10-million.
The company will receive $1-milion in cash on closing of the sale and $9-million in a first ranking secured promissor…
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Serbia-focused Tethyan Resources has announced that it will redomicile the company from England and Wales to British Columbia, Canada, to avoid the UK stamp duty tax.
The UK stamp duty tax – a tax of 0.5% payable to HM Revenue and Customs Stamp Office…
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This week, the Minerals Council South Africa reflects on the promise of the future, a new material may bring down the fuel cell cost curve, and a smelter in Zimbabwe heeds the local beneficiation call. Mining Weekly editor Martin Creamer unpacks the he…
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Aim-listed Oriole Resources plans to capitalise on its position as a first-mover in Cameroon to expand its footprint in the country alongside its partner Bureau d’Etudes et d’Investigations Géologico-minières, Géotechniques et Géophysiques (BEIG3). Ori…
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Aim-listed W Resources on Tuesday announced the first ore feed to the newly commissioned jig and mill plant at the La Parrilla tungsten mine in Spain.
This follows construction completion in April and commissioning of the conveyors, pumps, thickener, …
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