Canada’s diamond bourse heads east
Eyeing the strong and growing demand for diamonds in China, the Diamond Bourse of Canada (DBC) has set up a permanent liaison office in the Shanghai Diamond Exchange. The DBC’s…
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Lucara set for 2012 startup at AK6
Construction activities at Lucara Diamond’s (LUC-T) AK6 diamond mine in Botswana continue largely on track and on budget despite a two-month delay this summer. South African steelworkers striking in July…
Shear puts its nose to the grindstone at Jericho
Since announcing a gutsy move to acquire the past-producing Jericho diamond mine in Nunavut last year, Shear Diamonds (SRM-V) has been doing the hard work necessary to determine if there’s…
Metalex plans bulk sample at Kyle Lake
It’s a tall order, but if Metalex Ventures (MTX-V) can get the various permits and funding it needs, it could begin a 10,000-tonne bulk sample at its Kyle Lake project…
Stornoway set to release Renard feasibility
At press time in mid-October, a feasibility study for Stornoway Diamond‘s (SWY-T) 100%-owned Renard project, in Quebec, was due out within weeks. While Stornoway president and CEO Matt Manson said…
Shore Gold in financing mode
Now that Shore Gold (SGF-T) has released a positive feasibility study for the Star-Orion project, in Saskatchewan, the only question that remains is how to fund the large, but low-grade…
New Gold on track to 1 million oz. production
New Gold’s (NDG-T) third quarter results are in and show the company to be executing on its plan to shape itself into the next significant mid-tier gold producer.
Victoria looking to become Yukon’s next gold producer
Mayo, Yukon – With all the excitement about new discoveries in the Yukon, it’s easy to forget about the established deposits that could become mines in the near term.
Letter to the editor: New Prosperity plan is environmentally sound: Taseko CEO
I read the editorial submission of Chief Marilyn Baptiste, of the Xeni Gwet’in band of the Tsilhqot’in National Government (TNG), on The Northern Miner’s website on Nov. 2. It purported to list eight reasons why Taseko Mines’s resubmitted…
Pretium’s Robert Quartermain a goldbug all along
Vancouver – “Many people often think of me as a silver-focused individual,” keynote speaker Robert Quartermain told a crowd of around 150 mining executives in his opening remarks at a recent Association for Mineral Exploration B.C. (AME BC)…
Northern Tiger hunting for high-grade gold in SE Yukon
Whitehorse, Yukon – It’s the stuff of prospectors’ dreams. Climb up a hillside in a little-explored area and stumble upon enough visible gold to justify all those years of trudging around alone in the bush.
High grades for Eagle Hill in first resource estimate
Eagle Hill Exploration’s (EAG-V) has its first resource estimate in for its Windfall Lake project in Quebec’s Abitibi region and the grades found were better than what it was expecting.