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Callinex Mines makes headway in a low market
Callinex Mines completed a diamond drilling program at its Gossan Hill property near Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, covering 3,679 hectares with gold-bearing mineralization. The company maintains $3 million in the bank and is positioned to weather the current challenging market conditions with dedicated shareholder support.
Canadian Dewatering L.P. provides full-service fluid-management services
Canadian Dewatering L.P. provides comprehensive fluid-management and dewatering services to mining, oil and gas, and construction industries across Western Canada. The company operates eight branches including locations in British Columbia, handling complex projects like moving 17 million gallons of water over 1,200 feet of elevation at a coal mine near Sparwood.
Dynamic Specialty Vehicles Ltd.
Dynamic Specialty Vehicles Ltd. is celebrating 25 years of operation and expanding into the mining transport sector after successfully supplying seven vehicles to a large northern BC mining project. The company has joined the Mining Suppliers Association of BC and is targeting customized personnel transport solutions for mining operations across the province.
Communication solves problems
Omega Communications Ltd., a 35-year-old communications solutions provider based in Kelowna, BC, has expanded into the mining sector after serving various industrial clients including provincial ambulance services. The company provides voice coverage, recording systems, and custom communications solutions using brands like Motorola and Zetron, with crews capable of installing systems across Canada from Labrador to Banks Island.
SpanMaster Structures
SpanMaster Structures, formed from the remains of Cover-All Buildings Systems, offers engineered industrial shelter solutions for mining and construction. The company has expanded its product line to include three building types and is growing operations with a new subdealership in Prince George, BC.
Emeco turns 40
Emeco, an Australian-founded mining equipment supplier, celebrated its 40th anniversary after expanding from a small equipment supplier in 1972 to international operations across Australia, Canada, Indonesia and Chile. The company provides maintained dry rental services and equipment solutions to mines worldwide, with its Americas operations led from Edmonton by president Ian Testrow.
Operating with respect for the land
Duz Cho Construction, owned by the McLeod Lake Indian Band, has completed extensive infrastructure and tailings facility construction at the Mount Milligan mine site northwest of Prince George over three years. The company built road access infrastructure and an 8-kilometre earthen dam structure for the tailings storage facility, with the mine scheduled to open in July 2013.
Working together to open Mount Milligan
AMEC Americas Ltd. and Fluor Corporation completed EPCM services for the $1.5 billion Mount Milligan copper-gold mine in British Columbia, the province's first major metals mine in 15 years. The project includes a 60,000 tonnes per day processing plant and is expected to create 400 permanent jobs when production begins in fall 2013.
This new refinery will turn Alberta oil sands into diesel fuel
North West Upgrading Inc. and Canadian Natural Resources Limited are developing the North West Redwater bitumen refinery, the first built in Canada since 1982 and largest in North America since 1977. The facility will convert Alberta oil sands bitumen into diesel fuel with completion targeted for Q1 2016, featuring carbon capture technology to sell CO2 to enhanced oil recovery operations.
Guardian First Aid Service provides essential services
Guardian First Aid Service, based in Elkford, B.C., provides essential safety and medical services to mining operations in the East Kootenay, including work with Teck Coal in the Elk Valley. The company has been operating since 2003 and offers services ranging from basic first aid to paramedic-level care.
Northwest British Columbia opens up
Imperial Metals Corporation received a Mines Act permit for its Red Chris copper-gold-silver mine in northwestern BC, with a 28-year approved lifespan and $450 million in capital costs. The project shows significant resource growth with a 103% increase in measured and indicated resources to 1.26 billion tonnes containing 8.89 billion pounds of copper and 12.9 million ounces of gold. Production is scheduled to begin mid-2014 with 300 employees and annual production of 30,000 tonnes per day.
BCGold Corp.
BCGold Corp. is advancing the historical Engineer Mine Property in northwestern B.C. toward near-term small-scale production, planning to produce 1,500-3,000 ounces of gold from a bulk sample this year. The company owns 75% of the high-grade gold property with an option to earn 100% interest by January, having invested $4 million in exploration and development since 2006.
Fission Energy
Fission Energy Corp, led by CEO Dev Randhawa, has built a successful uranium exploration company focused on Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin. The company has discovered significant high-grade uranium deposits at Waterbury Lake, including intersections up to 45.2% U3O8, and established a preliminary resource estimate of 7.37 million pounds indicated uranium.
VMS Ventures
VMS Ventures operates the second largest property package in Manitoba, focusing on copper-zinc VMS deposits in the Flin Flon-Snow Lake region. The company successfully pivoted from rare earth exploration in 2007 and made significant copper discoveries at Reed Lake, including intersections of 10 metres at 11.19% copper and partnership with HudBay Minerals.
Red Eagle Mining
Red Eagle Mining Corp., led by CEO Ian Slater, operates gold exploration and development projects at Santa Rosa and Pavo Real in Colombia's Antioquia Batholish and mid-Cauca gold belt. The company employs 90 people, with only two non-Colombian employees, and benefits from strong community support and good infrastructure in what Slater describes as safe, historic mining districts.
Knelson
Knelson provides gravity concentration technology for mineral separation and recovery using patented fluidized bed separation methods. The company offers both semi-continuous batch concentrators and continuous variable discharge (CVD) concentrators for recovering precious metals including gold, silver, iron, zinc, and titanium from slurry feeds.