Mining

Thunder Bay’s Premier Gold Mines is acquiring a Mexican gold and silver mine in a US$140-million cash and share deal.

Toronto’s Orefinders Resources has hired two contractors to crush and recover surface gold from its Stockpiles Project near Kirkland Lake.

The Frontenac open pit may have limited gold potential, but it’s perfect ground for the type of real-world training that Randy Becker wants to provide for First Nations.

Detour Gold Corp. is reporting positive results from its winter drilling program at the Lower Detour property north of Cochrane.

Wesdome Gold Mines has appointed Duncan Middlemiss as its president and CEO. Middlemiss had been president and CEO of St. Andrew Goldfields before it was acquired by Kirkland Lake Gold in January.

KWG Resources has signed on CANARAIL Consultants to conduct a rail feasibility study for the Ring of Fire and for its development partners, China Railway First Survey & Design Institute.

Goldcorp has announced it will keep its underground Dome Mine in Timmins open and operational.

Treasury Metals, a future gold producer in northwestern Ontario, is adding to its assets by acquiring Goldeye Explorations and its very promising gold property, north of Red Lake.

Can a link be made between aluminum powder administered to miners over more than three decades and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)?

Osisko Mining has started a 20,000-metre drill program at its Garrison property, located 100 kilometres east of Timmins. Work is focused on the Garrcon and Jonpol deposits, which have been defined by previous operators on the property.