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Celebrate BC Mining Week with Family Fun Day at Britannia Mine Museum

Family Fun Day at Britannia Mine Museum. — Photo courtesy britanniaminemuseum.ca Britannia Beach, BC – As part of BC Mining Week, the Britannia Mi

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Intact Gold Corp. appoints new member to Board of Directors

Intact Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that it has appointed Greg Burns to the Company's Board of Directors. — Photo courtesy Intact Gold Corp VAN

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$94M profit declared by Teck Resources, sees change in direction in steelmaking coal and zinc prices

One of Teck Resources' new LNG conversion coal haul trucks being tested in the Elk Valley. — Photo courtesy Teck Vancouver, BC – Teck Resources Limit

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Nevsun Resources and Reservoir Minerals combine—consolidate Timok Copper Project ownership

Nevsun Resources Ltd. and Reservoir Minerals Inc. have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine their respective compa

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Caterpillar introduces “The Age of Smart Iron” digital technology

Doug Oberhelman, Chairman and CEO of Caterpillar Inc., envisions "...every machine, engine, truck, tablet, light tower, smart device and drone - will

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Polaris Rampage helps Canada assert its northern sovereignty

Polaris' new all-terrain vehicle, The Rampage. — Photo courtesy Polaris Polaris has released a cool new all-terrain vehicle called the Rampage and i

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Self-Unloaders 101: new CSL video explains how self-unloading ships work

Gravity-fed unloaders are highly specialized vessels that can quickly discharge dry bulk cargo without the assistance of shore-side equipment. — Phot

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Mining industry supports carbon price to address climate change

Pierre Gratton, President and CEO of The Mining Association of Canada (MAC). — Photo courtesy M&E The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) and its mem

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Canadian Pacific terminates efforts to merge with Norfolk Southern

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. announced that it has terminated efforts to merge with Norfolk Southern Corp. — Photo courtesy CP Rail ​​​​​Canadian P

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Fortune Minerals announces permitting underway for NWT public highway to Whati

Whati is 50 km south of Fortune's proposed NICO gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper development that has already received its environmental assessment approval

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Tree-top sampling program may help uncover new mineral deposits in B.C.

Helicopter-supported treetop sampling is an effective way of quickly acquiring samples over large inaccessible areas of British Columbia. — Photo cour

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Canadian companies poised to benefit from lithium surge?

A prototype of the Tesla Model 3 electric car. — Photo courtesy Tesla Motors Fresh on the heels of Tesla's incredible unveiling of the model 3 Elect

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Imperial recalls over half of their laid off employees—44 of 85 called back

Some of the employees at Huckleberry Mine that were laid off due to weak copper prices have now been recalled back to work. — Photo courtesy Vancou

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Geoscience BC releases first data reports on groundwater aquifers in the Peace Region

Geoscience BC today released the first two data reports on groundwater resources in the Peace Region of British Columbia, which will significantly imp

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KPU students get new trades training equipment

The Ministry of Advanced Education is targeting funding and programs to sectors that have a high demand for skilled workers. — Photo courtesy news.go

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One step closer to development: permitting progresses at IDM Mining’s Red Mountain Gold project

IDM Mining Ltd., has received its Section 11 Order for the Red Mountain Underground Gold Project from the British Columbia Environmental Assessment Of

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Cameco commences drilling at CanAlaska’s West McArthur Project

CanAlaska Uranium is pleased to announce that the first drill program has commenced on the West McArthur Project under the agreement with Cameco Corpo

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Terrapure Environmental acquires leading industrial dredging business In Eastern Canada

Terrapure Environmental announced that it has acquired Consolidated Giroux Environment Inc., an industrial dredging company based in New Brunswick. —

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Is the mining “Bear” market on the run?

Prolonged rally or market blip, the mining and resource sectors will be watching closely in future weeks and months to see if the bear market is abati

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Horse Creek silica mine near Golden on the drawing board

Photo of one of Hi-Test Sand's sand quarries. — Photo courtesy Hi-Test Sand Inc. If plans go right the Golden area may soon be home to a new year-ro

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Federal Budget invests in mining essentials

Pierre Gratton, MAC’s President and CEO. — Photo courtesy Mining and Energy/Robert Hawkins The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) welcomes the new Li

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Kennady Diamonds discovers third kimberlite at Faraday

Exploration drilling at the Kennady North project has resulted in the discovery of a third kimberlite body at the high-grade Faraday kimberlite cluste

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Teck restructures senior management

Robin Sheremeta, currently Vice President, Operations, Coal, will become Senior Vice President, Coal. — Photo courtesy Teck/Linkedin Teck Resources L

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Goldcorp announces senior management changes

Mr. Charlie Ronkos, Senior Vice President Exploration is leaving the company to pursue other interests. — Photo courtesy GoldCorp GOLDCORP INC. has

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