VANCOUVER — A new partnership between First Nations, exploration companies and the B.C. government named the British Columbia Regional Mining Alliance (BCRMA) is working well to advance mineral exploration and mining in northwestern British Columbia. T…
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DENMARK – FLSmidth announced this week that it has completed the buyout of Australia’s IMP Automation Group. According to the Danish firm, the decision to acquire IMP arose from the need to have a more complete portfolio of automated laboratory&#…
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IDAHO – First Cobalt has extended copper-cobalt mineralization along strike at both its Waite zone and No Name zone, part of its Iron Creek cobalt project in Idaho. The Toronto-based company is reporting four holes it drilled west of the project’s̷…
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ONTARIO – Toronto-based North American Palladium (NAP) is ramping up its exploration efforts at the Lac des Iles palladium mine 90 km north of Thunder Bay. A minimum budget of $16 million is set, $10 million of which was raised…
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NEW BRUNSWICK – Osisko Metals of Montreal is pleased with the assays from six recent drill holes at the Titan zone on its wholly owned Key Anacon zinc-lead-copper project located 20 km south of the city of Bathurst. Hole KAT-18-11…
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BRITISH COLUMBIA – Discovered in 2017, the high grade epithermal gold system known as the Saddle target continues to demand attention from the drillers and geologists of Vancouver-based GT Gold. The target is on the company’s flagship Tatogga property …
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GEORGIA – All experienced slurry pump operators are aware of some of the reasons for high rates of pump wear that can negatively affect pump performance over time. Although slurry characteristics such as particle size and concentration may first come&#…
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The Young Mining Professionals (YMP) — a non-profit group with chapters in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Sudbury, Perth, Brisbane, Johannesburg and London — has given its Mining Professional of the Year awards for 2018 to Andrée St-Germain, chief finan…
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ONTARIO – Northern Graphite announced that it is considering increasing annual concentrate production by at least 20% at its Bissett Creek graphite project between Ottawa and North Bay. This would mean integrating an initial production rate of approxim…
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BURKINA FASO – Semafo has tabled a maiden resource for the Bantou gold zone, located about 170 km south of its Mana gold mine in Burkina Faso, totalling 2.1 million inferred tonnes grading 5.35 g/t gold for 361,000 oz. of…
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