NORTHWEST TERRITORIES – Construction of the Tlicho All-Season Road (TASR) project, which would provide better winter road access to Nighthawk Gold’s Indin Lake gold project, is proceeding ahead of schedule. In the release, Michael Byron, Nighthawk’s pr…
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Chinese manufacturing activity slumped to a record low in February as the coronavirus outbreak temporarily shuttered plants and factories and travel restrictions impacted the supply of labor.
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TORONTO – Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Greg Rickford, minister of Northern Development and Mines and Indigenous Affairs were at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention this week to announce a new agreement with two First Nation…
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TSX-V-listed Fireweed Zinc has hailed the agreement about road upgrades that the Yukon government and the Ross River Dena Council (RRDC) First Nation reached as a “major step” forward towards the eventual development of the Macmillan Pass zinc, lead an…
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The Ontario government and First Nations on Monday signed an agreement to advance planning and development of a proposed northern road link that will provide all-season access to mine sites in the Ring of Fire and connect communities to the provincial …
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Infrastructure and resources group Aveng, which is at the tail-end of a far-reaching restructuring exercise that has already resulted in disposals collectively valued at R1-billion, reports that its two remaining core businesses – Moolmans and McConnel…
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So far in 2020, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has averaged an anemic 0.01 percent when adjusted for inflation. Since the end of January, it’s actually dipped below 0 percent, trading as low as negative 0.14 percent on January 31.
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VANCOUVER – Despite receiving the go-ahead to build a 170-km all-season road to its Prairie Creek project in the Northwest Territories in November, NorZinc won’t be able to begin construction this year as planned, forcing the company to reschedule its&…
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The U.S. manufacturing sector contracted for the fifth straight month in December, with the monthly reading from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) hitting its weakest point in more than 10 years. The purchasing manager’s index (PMI) fell to 47.2, a level we haven’t seen since June 2009, as global trade tensions continued to take a toll on the country’s manufacturers.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times—for American trucking companies.
This year alone, nearly 800 U.S.-based trucking companies have gone bankrupt. That’s almost three times the rate as in 2018, when things were looking remarkably positive.
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