“Productivity is the prime imperative for the mining industry of the decade or decades to come,” Ross Middleton, a partner with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), told attendees at Mining Magazine’s “Optimizing Mine…
In a symbolic gesture the Innu First Nations of Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam and Matimekush-Lac John returned two iron-ore boulders to Iron Ore Co. of Canada’s (IOC) head office in Montreal. IOC is majority-owned by Rio Tinto. The boulders were…
The following is an edited excerpt from the World Steel Association’s (worldsteel) “Short-range outlook for 2014 and 2015.” It forecasts that global apparent steel use will increase by 2% to 1,562 million tonnes in 2014 after…
The Colombia-based Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) has given refiner Metalor its ‘Fairmined Refiner’ designation, making the firm the first London Bullion Market Association (LBMA)-approved refiner to hold that status.
Quest Rare Minerals (TSX: QRM) has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Montreal-based Fednav to develop and deliver shipping solutions for the Strange Lake REE project in northeastern Quebec.
Despite two nearly back-to-back civil wars in the 1990s that left Liberia in ruins and over a quarter of a million people dead, and now the Ebola outbreak that has killed 1,830 people in the country already this year, Aureus Mining (TSX: AUE;…
Spot pricesCourtesy of ScotiabankTuesday, October 7, 2014Precious MetalsPrice…
Pleased with results from recent drilling at its Adyabo gold-copper project in Ethiopia, Canaco Resources spinoff East Africa Metals (TSXV: EAM; US-OTC: EFRMF) is starting a 6,000-metre diamond-drilling program to define several mineralized…
Amara Mining (TSX: AMZ) has increased the gold ounces and grade at its wholly owned Yaoure project in Côte d’Ivoire based on 70 diamond drill holes and 35 reverse-circulation holes drilled so far this year.
Roxgold (TSXV: ROG; US-OTC: ROGFF) has de-risked its Yaramoko project in Burkina Faso with a US$75-million debt-financing package from several European banks, and a US$15-million equity investment from its underground mining contractor in…
VANCOUVER — Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY) says the best return on its exploration capital will be realized through brownfield initiatives at its producing mines. The company is in the midst of a $75-million program to “unlock…
Canada’s main stock index posted its fifth straight weekly decline despite a positive jobs report in the U.S., weighed down by concerns including whether the central government in Beijing would move against pro-democracy protesters in…
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