April 25, 2011

Quest Board approves funding for pre-feasibility study, Strange Lake B-Zone deposit, Quebec

Quest Rare Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:QRM) is pleased to report that its Board of Directors has approved funding for a pre-feasibility study […]

April 25, 2011

Barrick announces agreement to acquire Equinox

Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:ABX)(TSX:ABX) ("Barrick" or "the Company") announced today that it has entered into a support agreement with Equinox Minerals Limited (TSX:EQN)(ASX:EQN)("Equinox") for Barrick to acquire, through an all-cash…

April 25, 2011

Interest! Alert: Accredited course on evaluating gold junior mining companies offered by Market Motion Media

This two-day course presented by Market Motion Media, Inc. will be held 6-7 June at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver, B.C., 9-10 June at the Sheraton Centre, Toronto, and…

April 25, 2011

Dawson Creek, B.C.: the mining industry expands with provincially funded training programs

The province of B.C. will be spending $1.6 million on the Workforce Exploration Skills Training (WEST) program at Northwest Community College (NWCC). Participants will spend seven weeks on the ground…

April 25, 2011

Resistance to ICTs in mining – a generational issue?

Mark Bullen, Tannis Morgan, and Adnan Qayyum discuss the influence of generation in the use of ICTs (information and communication technologies) in higher education. ...a comprehensive review of the research…

April 25, 2011

Management training on the minesite? Iain Macdonald and Jason Chiu evaluate the viability of mobile learning

In the Canadian Journal of Learning Technology, Macdonald and Chiu's paper Evaluating the Viability of Mobile Learning to Enhance Management Training explores the augmentation of an e-learning program using mobile…

April 25, 2011

Tata to hold onto Riversdale stake

India's Tata Steel , the world's No 7 steelmaker, will hold on to its stake in Africa-focused Riversdale Mining , its vice chairman said on Monday. "We will continue to…

April 25, 2011

Continuously take gold and silver profits to reduce risk

At US$1,500 an ounce for gold and US$43 for silver, you may be tempted to sell them short, which can leave you painfully squeezed if prices continue to rise, or…

April 24, 2011

Trapped miner died in ground collapse, mining company says

After more than nine days of holding out hope that trapped miner Larry “Pete” Marek was alive after a mine collapse, Hecla Mining Company said it believed Marek was dead…

April 23, 2011

Quarterly gold production up 41% – Iamgold

Mid-tier gold miner Iamgold's quarterly gold production rose 41 percent on strong performance at its largest assets, the Rosebel mine in Suriname and Essakane mine in Burkina Faso. Toronto-based Iamgold,…