Canada’s auditor general criticized the federal critical minerals strategy for not adequately probing the impact increased mining will have on the environment and Indigenous communities. The government program issued in…
Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A and TECK.B; NYSE: TCK) has made its first step into Ontario’s Ring of Fire. The Vancouver-based major has entered into an option agreement with Canterra Minerals…
Canterra Minerals (TSXV: CTM; OTC: CTMCF) has received results of a 4,200-metre diamond drill program completed in December 2021 at its wholly owned Wilding gold project. An additional 4,000-metre campaign…
Alto Ventures (TSXV: ATV) In February, Alto Ventures began a reverse-circulation drilling program to test several kimberlite targets at the GEFA project, in east-central Saskatchewan. The targets were identified in…
Diamonds in Canada’s annual roundup of Canadian-listed producers, developers and active juniors Alto Ventures Alto Ventures (TSXV: ATV) has negotiated more time to earn a 60% stake in the GEFA…
Alto Ventures In April, Alto Ventures (TSXV: ATV) reported that 12 of 37 till samples taken at its West Fisher claims, 12 km northwest of North Arrow Minerals’ Pikoo project…
Randy Turner — the man who guided Winspear Diamonds from the discovery of the Snap Lake diamond deposit in northern Canada to its sale to De Beers for $305 million in 2000 — is back at diamond exploration in the same part of…
After going into hibernation in the wake of the Great Recession, diamond juniors are slowly rousing and getting back into the field. Inspired by Kennady Diamonds’ (TSXV: KDI) success at…
Encouraging results from its Kennady North diamond project in the Northwest Territories have Kennady Diamonds (TSXV: KDI) doubling its summer drill program, adding a third drill, and rethinking the potential size of the project.
For years it seemed that juniors were fleeing from diamond exploration — and for good reason.
A roundup of the latest news from Canadian-listed diamond explorers, developers and miners. Afri-Can Marine Minerals Afri-Can Marine Minerals (TSXV: AFA) reported in January the results of a positive prefeasibility study…
Energy companies have recruited geological talent from the University of Calgary for decades, so it’s no surprise that Randy Turner joined the sector after earning his B.Sc. degree in 1971. It was a wise career choice, with multinationals…
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