Mining

Montreal’s Osisko Mining announced April 16 that it has reached an agreement with Yamana Gold and Agnico Eagle to jointly buy all Osisko's issued and outstanding common shares for $3.9-billion or $8.15 a share.

Richmont Mines wants to snatch up graduates of Northern College’s underground hard rock miner common core program.

The Ontario Prospectors Association presented the Bernie Schnieders Discovery of the Year Award to Transition Metals and Impala Platinum Holdings.

Richard Nemis, the founder of Noront Resources, is joining Goldeye Explorations on its technical and advisory board.

KWG Resources is congratulating the Wynne government for keeping the Ontario Northland Railway (ONR) in public hands.

The Greater Sudbury Police Service have announced that 36-year-old Paul Rochette of Sudbury was the Vale employee killed in an incident at the company’s Copper Cliff operations, April 6. A second worker was seriously injured and remains in hospital.

A worker at Vale’s Sudbury operation is dead and another is seriously injured after an April 6 mining accident.

The province was “blinded” by Cliffs Natural Resources' promises to invest in the Ring of Fire to the detriment of the project's development, said Moe Lavigne, KWG Resources' vice-president of exploration and development.

When Bernie Frohlick turned 65 this year, the calendar told him it was time to start receiving his pension, but he wasn’t quite ready to hang up his work boots.

AuRico Gold is reporting its seventh consecutive quarter of record production, representing a 10 per cent increase over the prior quarter and a 17 per cent over the first quarter of 2013.