In a move to protect and preserve Southern Arizona’s water supply, Augusta Resource Corp reports that it has already stored a full two years’ worth of water needed to operate its Rosemont Copper project within the Tucson Active Management Area (Tucson AMA basin). By the end of this year a total of 15,000 acre feet of […]

On June 27, Yamana Gold and Northern Orion Resources announced that they have entered into a business combination agreement and a concurrent proposal has been made to Meridian Gold with respect to the combination of the three companies. The strategic combination would result in the creation of a pre-eminent mid-tier gold producer with the following attributes:
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IM July features Canadian diamonds and Bateman Engineering has just informed us that it is supplying pneumo-drier systems to two major De Beers diamond projects in Canada: the Snap Lake and Victor Mine recovery projects. The last phase of the installation and commissioning is currently in progress, with final, handover commissioning scheduled for July 2007 for the […]

Shore Gold, sponsor of the cover of International Mining’s July issue which includes a feature on Canadian diamonds, has received the sixth set of diamond results from Phase 3 of the underground bulk sampling of the Star Kimberlite (Phase 1 being the original 25,000 t bulk sample and Phase 2 being the 18,000 t bulk […]

Further to statements in May regarding the signing of an Memorandum Of Understanding for uranium exploration of CanAlaska Uranium’s Cree East project in conjunction with a Korean Consortium led by Hanwha Corp, CanAlaska has announced further details on the progress of the proposed transaction. Preliminary agreement has been reached between Hanwha and CanAlaska towards the overall […]

Finnish-based AC drives manufacturer Vacon and WWF Finland have started a cooperation to reduce the impacts of climate change. The partners will promote WWF’s work of protecting the environment and of increasing public awareness of energy-savings and other benefits that Vacon’s technology brings.  
“We want to take a more goal-oriented attitude to preventing climate change […]