Mining

By ANDREW WAREING With diamonds a major source of exploration in Northern Ontario, Big Red Diamond Corp. (BRDC) has gone public to help finance its explorations in the Attawapiskat area.

April was a good drilling month for diamond hunters KWG Resources and Spider Resources with the discovery of three kimberlites on their McFadyen property in the James Bay lowlands.

By JOSEPH QUESNEL For Rob McEwen, when it comes to running a billion-dollar company, ideas are more important than where one comes from.

Sudbury’s mining community strengthened its ties to Chile with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding last month.

KELLY LOUISEIZE Penguin Automated Systems Inc.’s Chairman and CTO Dr. Greg Baiden, is gearing up to put technology in place that may change the mining, military and medical complexion forever.

A plan to ship Voisey’s Bay nickel concentrate to Sudbury via Manitoulin Island has been scrapped by Inco. The controversial proposal by Alexander Centre Industries Ltd.

By ANDREW WAREING Mining companies that operate deep mines have the dual challenge of making sure that people and machines have enough air to operate efficiently underground while ensuring neither gets overheated. Dr.

During the fourth quarter, refined nickel production totalled 27,058 tonnes compared with 27,387 tonnes from the same quarter a year ago.

Temex Resources Corp. has announced an additional 3,000-metre diamond-drilling program on its 100 per cent owned Juby Project, which neighbours onto the Goldeye Joint Venture Project.

Pelangio Mines Inc. has commenced a 10,000-metre drilling program on its wholly-owned Detour Mine Property in the Timmins gold camp. The property has an historical gold resource of 8.1 million tonnes, with an average grade of 6.