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A drill rig underground at Rambler Metals & Mining's Ming copper-gold mine in Newfoundland. Credit: Rambler Metals and Mining

Rambler adds 15 years to mine life at Ming

VANCOUVER — Rambler Metals & Mining (TSXV: RAB) is looking to upgrade its underground Ming copper-gold mine, 17 km east of the town of Baie Verte on the north-central coast Newfoundland, after positive results from a prefeasibility…


Moments from the Toodoggone River Tube Race on July 31, 1981.  Vic Hardy tests the water to begin the race.

Odds ‘n’ sods: The Toodoggone River Tube Race of 1981

VANCOUVER — On July 31, 1981, nearly 200 geologists and support crews stood speechless along the gravel banks of the remote Toodoggone River in north-central B.C., as a helicopter landed before them alongside the frigid, glacial-fed water.




Teck Resources' 80%-owned Greenhills metallurgical coal mine in southeastern British Columbia.  Source: Teck Resources

Teck chugs along, amid plunging coal prices

Teck Resources (TSX: TCK.B and NYSE: TCK) has posted decent second quarter results. But analysts remain cautious about the diversified miner’s path forward, amid weakening coal markets.


Mills spinning at Kirkland Lake Gold's Macassa gold mine in Ontario. Source: Kirkland Lake Gold

Gold stocks that soared in 2015’s H1

Several gold producers have registered strong share price gains during the first half of 2015, despite price pressure on the yellow metal. The spot gold price dipped 0.7% from last year’s close to end June 30 at US$1,174 per oz. It has…



Christina Taylor (left), project geologist, and Max Porterfield, Callinex Mines' CEO, at a drill site in March 2015 at the Pine Bay copper project in Manitoba. Source: Callinex Mines

Callinex Mines attracts Resource Capital Funds

Max Porterfield, president and CEO of Callinex Mines (TSXV: CNX; US-OTC: CLLXF) thinks he’s got the projects, the people and soon, some of the money, to have a decent shot at making the next meaningful discovery in…




TSX edges up, July 13-17

Canada’s benchmark index added 109.62 points, or 0.8%, to close the turbulent week at 14,642.84. The S&P/TSX Capped Diversified Metals & Mining Index plunged 6.8% to 614.32, while the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell 6.7% to…


Scott Broughton (left), Roca Mines president and CEO, and John Gardiner, Taranis Resources president and CEO, tour the Max mill facility, 60 km southeast of Revelstoke, British Columbia. Photo by Lesley Stokes

Site visit: Taranis hopes to take Thor to the Max

REVELSTOKE, B.C. — Taranis Resources (TSXV: TRO; US-OTC: TNREF) is eyeing an option to buy 65% of FortyTwo Metals, a subsidiary of Roca Mines, in a move to secure the Max mill facility, 60 km southeast of Revelstoke, B.C. 


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