Canadian Zinc Corporation announce that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (”MOU”) with the Nahanni Butte Dene Band (”NBDB”), of Nahanni Butte, Northwest Territories, to establish a mutually beneficial, co-operative and productive relationship with regard to the exploration and development of the Prairie Creek Mine. Furthermore NBDB and CZN intend to work together, [...]
Canada’s rich mining industry is expected to face a shortage of 80,000 workers over the next decade, Human Resources Minister Monte Solberg said on Wednesday.
“We know that having enough skilled workers is a serious problem,” Solberg said in the prepared text of a speech he was giving to a mining human resources forum.
He said 400,000 [...]
Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold used Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit Wednesday to do a little damage control on its controversial mining operation in the Andes.
With a ragtag group of protesters camped outside the company’s high-rise headquarters in the center of Santiago, a Barrick spokesman blamed “professional activists” for giving Barrick — and Canada — [...]
Gold is returning to the North as Miramar Mining (TSX:MAE) readies a site along Canada’s Arctic coast for the first new gold mine development in a generation.
“It’s a great opportunity to see it coming back,” said Larry Connell, Miramar’s environmental manager.
Crews are now quarrying rock near the Vancouver-based company’s Doris North deposit in Nunavut and [...]
Alcoa Inc. announced that it has reviewed Alcan’s continuity agreement with the Government of Quebec which identifies the requirements that Alcoa must meet regarding Alcan’s future operations in the Province in order to maintain certain of Alcan’s hydroelectric and water rights. In a letter to Alcan’s Board of Directors, Alcoa outlined the many ways in [...]
Niger has granted a wave of permits to British, Canadian and Indian mining firms allowing them to explore for uranium in its desert north, the West African country’s government said on Saturday.
A total of 23 permits were granted to three Canadian firms, three British firms and an Indian company, enabling them to explore in the [...]
A Canadian company has shut down its 35-year-old coal mine in Washington state, throwing 600 people out of work, but plans to keep a major generating plant running with coal from Wyoming.
TransAlta Corp. has signed long-term contracts with Rio Tinto Energy America and Peabody Energy for coal with less sulfur and mercury from the [...]
The three Wyoming members of Congress joined forces to request that the Treasury Department approve an application giving a company $350 million in investment tax credits to build the planned Medicine Bow Fuel and Power coal-to-liquids facility.
Republican Sens. Craig Thomas and Mike Enzi and Rep. Barbara Cubin sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson [...]
From concept and siting, an effort to build one of the nation’s first coal-to-liquids plants in Wyoming will soon move to the permitting and design stage.
Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC recently awarded a contract to Canadian firm SNC-Lavalin to perform feasibility, engineering and design services for a $1 billion facility located in northern [...]
Nickel producer Falconbridge Ltd. (TSX:FAL) plans to expand its Raglan mine in northern Quebec with an investment of more than $500 million over the next several years, the company announced Wednesday.
The expansion will create about 50 new jobs as the miner launches two key studies to develop new reserves to replace ore mined since the [...]
