January 15, 2013 Laurentian creates first research chair in open-pit mining IAMGOLD funds position at Laurentian University in Sudbury with $1.25M investment.
January 15, 2013 Barrick and Goldcorp Pueblo Viejo mine achieves commercial production After only five months of kicking-off operations at the Dominican Republic’s Pueblo Viejo gold deposit, one of the largest in the world, Barrick and Goldcorp said the mine has achieved…
January 14, 2013 Encanto Potash close to $700m/year Indian deal Things are moving in the junior otash sector in Canada.
January 14, 2013 Fresh protests against Eldorado Gold’s Hellas mine in Greece Citizens’ groups, backed by the radical leftist party Syriza that is now the second largest group in parliament, have been trying to wreck the project since 2011, when Eldorado was…
January 14, 2013 Alamos Gold makes $780 million takeover bid for Aurizon Mines Alamos is after Aurizon’s only operating gold mine, Casa Berardi, in northern Quebec.
January 14, 2013 First Quantum and Inmet exchange ‘love letters’ First Quantum said Inmet is trying to sabotage the takeover, while Inmet suggested its counterpart’s complaints were dishonest.
January 14, 2013 Arctic oil extraction frozen, but mining to bring a melting $100 billion in investments While the US interior department has launched a review of Shell’s whole Arctic oil drilling programme, mining projects look promising.
January 14, 2013 Goldcorp’s mine in El Salvador a ‘threat’ to human rights: government Country wants the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) to help it stop Goldcorp's Cerro Blanco project.
January 14, 2013 Trilliant Exploration advances with Copper Island Mines Copper Island Mines is in the process of working with the necessary personnel for the 43-101 which will independently verify the mineralization of high grade copper.
January 14, 2013 Pinetree Capital Ltd. acquires securities of U3O8 Corp. Pinetree Capital announces that on January 11, 2013, it acquired ownership of 10,000,000 common shares and 5,000,000 common share purchase warrants of U3O8 Corp.
Another arrest made in ‘largest gold heist in Canadian history’ In April 2023 about 880 pounds of gold was offloaded from a flight at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport after arriving from Zurich, along with C$2.5 million in cash. January 12, 2026 | 04:55 pm
