TORONTO – Brookfield Business Partners L.P. is getting out of the palladium mining business. The firm has decided to sell its 81% interest in North American Palladium to Impala Platinum Holdings of Johannesburg, South Africa. Implats has agreed to pay&…
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BRITISH COLUMBIA – Benchmark Metals of Edmonton, Alta., has hit bonanza grades in the first hole it drilled this year at the Phoenix zone at its Lawyers gold-silver project. The property hosts the former Lawyers gold-silver mine that produced 171,200&#…
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LIVELY, Ont. – As part of an aggressive business strategy to grow domestic and international sales, Industrial Fabrication has launched a new brand for its line of underground mine utility vehicles. Formerly marketed under the Minecat brand the company…
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Hochschild Mining (LON: HOC) has mined precious metal epithermal vein deposits in South America for 50 years and currently operates three underground mines, two in southern Peru and one in southern Argentina. The mines produced 245,325 oz. gold-equival…
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NEWFOUNDLAND – Great Atlantic Resources announced that it has qualified for some funding through the Junior Exploration Assistance Program sponsored by the Newfoundland and Labrador government, in Canada’s Atlantic region. In a press release, Great Atl…
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MEXICO – Vancouver-based Kootenay Silver (TSXV: KTN; US-OTC: KOOYF) has announced a $2-million investment from Sprott Asset Management through a non-brokered private placement of 7.7 million units at $0.26 per unit. Each unit consists of one common sha…
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NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – The recent fall-off of the cobalt price has Fortune Minerals thinking it will stick with the smaller proposed NICO cobalt-gold-bismuth-copper project 160 km northwest of Yellowknife. In 2014, a feasibility study suggested a mine…
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ONTARIO – Resources in the open pit planned for the Hardrock gold deposit near Geraldton have risen to 5.8 million oz., according to Premier Gold Mines of Thunder Bay, Ont. The deposit is part of the Greenstone project, a 50:50…
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Anaconda Mining of Toronto announced that Dustin Angelo has stepped down from his duties as president and a director of the company. The roles of president and CEO are now combined with Kevin Bullock taking on those duties. Bullock was…
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GARLAND, Tex. – Epiroc introduces the Pit Viper 270 XC series that delivers application flexibility, fuel efficient performance and enhanced safety with outstanding operator comfort and ease of maintenance. The Pit Viper 270 series, a mining industry s…
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