ONTARIO – The last truckload of kimberlite from Ontario’s first and only diamond mine has left the pit. De Beers Canada said mining ceased on March 5 – 11 years to the day after the official opening in 2008. The…
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YUKON – Vancouver-based Golden Predator has agreed to purchase 100% of the Reef gold property from Precipitate Gold. The Reef property is 200 km north of Watson Lake, adjacent to Golden Predator’s 3 Aces gold project. The purchase of the…
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ONTARIO – Toronto-based Iamgold Corp. (70%) and Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. (30%) of Japan have announced the discovery of a new gold zone at their Côté project 125 km southwest of Timmins. The new zone of intrusive-hosted mineralization has been…
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ONTARIO – Australia miner Galaxy Resources and the Cree Nation of Eastmain have entered into a pre-development agreement for the James Bay lithium mine 100 km east of the community of Eastmain. The PDA commits the company to notify the…
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CALIFORNIA – Accurate weight data is a critical part of many activities in the mining industry, at every stage from site exploration to processing and transportation of mined materials. Let’s look at how weighing accuracy affects resource acquisition a…
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Sandspring Resources (TSXV: SSP; US-OTC: SSPXF) is finalizing a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Toroparu gold project in Guyana that rescopes the project’s pre-feasibility study (PFS) and includes a third gold pit. It aims to table the st…
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BRITISH COLUMBIA – The province of British Columbia approved a five-year extension of Seabridge Gold‘s environmental assessment certificate for the KSM project. According to Seabridge, the original permit was issued for a five-year term on July 2…
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ONTARIO – First Mining Gold has updated the resource estimate at its Goldlund gold project in the northwestern region of the province. The company added 248,700 oz. of gold to its indicated resource but lost 628,400 oz. of gold from its…
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BRITISH COLUMBIA – Toronto’s Barkerville Gold Mines has received bonanza grades from recent drilling at its flagship Cariboo gold project in the central part of the province. The results have also expanded mineralization by 175 metres at Island Mountai…
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QUEBEC – Troilus Gold Corp. of Toronto reports finding a new mineralized zone in the southeast part of the J zone at the past producing Troilus gold-copper mine in the Abitibi region, 175 km from Chibougamau. The gold-rich area is…
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