Fire shuts mill at Osisko's Quebec mine

Osisko Mining, the TSX-listed gold producer, said on Thursday it shut down the mill at its flagship Malarctic mine after a fire broke out just before midnight on Wednesday. Firefighters have put out the fire and the company is monitoring the...

Semafo Q1 output flat, despite mine's temporary closure

News that West Africa-focused Semafo produced 60 900 oz of gold in the first quarter, slightly above the figure for the first three months in 2011, and that it restarted mining at Kiniero in Guinea, sent the company’s stock up by over 7% on the...

Orbite rises on first trading day following Feb suspension

Shares in Orbite Aluminae, which hopes to produce the raw material used to make aluminium from clay deposits in Quebec, rose nearly 5% on Thursday, as regulators lifted a trading halt that had been in place since February 23. Autorite des marches...

Skills shortage continues to plague mining sector

One of the most significant challenges facing the global mining fraternity is the continued skills shortage.

The future’s so bright . . .

Mining investment in Canada could surpass $138-billion in new private sector investment over the next five years, Mining Association of Canada (MAC) VP government affairs Paul Hébert tells Mining Weekly. These investments will create thousands of...

Orbite's technical report not compliant, Quebec regulator tells company

Shares in Orbite Aluminae spiralled as much as 25% on Friday afternoon, after it said Quebec’s financial regulator notified the company the preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the Grand-Vallée alumina project did not comply with...

Matamec in rare-earth partnership with Toyota unit

Montreal-based Matamec Explorations has penned a preliminary pact with a Toyota subsidiary to partner on and accelerate the Kipawa rare earths deposit in Quebec, about 100 km north-east of North Bay, the company said on Monday. The nonbinding...

Canada could create 'thousands' of diamond manufacturing jobs

Canada has the potential to create “thousands” of direct and indirect diamond cutting and polishing jobs as new mines come into production in the country over the next decade, Diamond Bourse of Canada GM Adam Shubinsky said in a recent...

Philip Hopkins

Position: CEO South American Ferro Metals (SAFM) Main activity of company: Iron ore mining and processing Date and place of birth: June 25, 1960, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada Education: BSc Mining Engineering, MBA

Energy Fuels to buy Titan Uranium

TSX-quoted Energy Fuels on Tuesday agreed to buy smaller junior Titan Uranium for shares, offering a 33.6% premium to its closing price the previous day. The companies said the friendly deal would create a platform for further consolidation of...

Shock as chamber stalwart Roger Baxter leaves South Africa for Canada

Shock waves are reverberating along the corridors of mining power on the news that minerals economics stalwart Roger Baxter has quit his position as South African Chamber of Mines senior executive strategy to join a company within the diversified...

Get nationalisation issue out of way, says migrating chamber strategist

South Africa needs to get the issue of mine nationalisation out of the way because it is not helping anyone, says departing Chamber of Mines strategy executive, Roger Baxter, 45, who is leaving South Africa to work in Canada. Instead of using the...