FRENCH GUIANA – Reunion Gold Corp. announced the discovery of new high grade gold mineralization at the Saint-Michel prospect, part of its Boulanger project in the north-central part of the country. The company sampled 42 dumps located near artisanal s…
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STOCKHOLM – Epiroc has introduced 6th Sense, calling it a “game changer” that combines digitalization and automation to boost customers’ performance. There is a growing need for the mining and infrastructure industries to look to digital technologies t…
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This is my final editorial for The Northern Miner, as I will soon depart to join gold miner Agnico Eagle Mines as a senior geologist in their Toronto head office, working on technical writing. After almost 23 years at the Miner,…
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RUSSIA – The world’s top diamond producer by output, Alrosa, reported unearthing a gem quality rough diamond weighing 63.15 carats from the Zapolyarnaya kimberlite pipe of the Verkhne-Munskoye deposit located in Yakutia. In a press release, Alrosa rev…
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TORONTO – Marathon Gold is on track to release a new resource estimate in September for its Leprechaun deposit in the company’s Valentine gold camp in Newfoundland and Labrador. The latest drilling has expanded the high grade area within Leprechaun’s M…
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YUKON – Vancouver-based ATAC Resources has announced the results of the Rau exploration project at the western end of the Rackla gold property 50 km northeast of Keno City, in the Mayo district. Work will be done to follow up…
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SASKATCHEWAN – Vancouver-based Western Resources Corp. says its subsidiary, Western Potash Corp. began production drilling on July 14, 2019. at the Milestone in situ potash project 35 km southeast of Regina. Western is calling Milestone the newest and …
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MONGOLIA – Big mining projects come with big price tags, and the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in the South Gobi area is no exception. The operator and 50% owner Rio Tinto says the cost to complete the underground portion of…
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ILLINOIS – Caterpillar says it has kept everything its customers love about its D11 tracked dozer, and beefed it up to be more productive and efficient, thus lowering overall costs. Among a lot of other things, Cat redesigned the pin…
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When the Diavik diamond mine began production in 2004, there were likely more than a few miners that experienced deep pangs of regret, remembering that they could have had a shot at discovering and owning Canada’s second – and richest…
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