Canadian mining news

Kutcho Copper Corp. has announced it has joined the BC Regional Mining Alliance, a consortium of Aboriginal groups, industry peers, the British Columbia (BC) government and AME BC.

Rio Tinto is now offering independently certified responsibly produced aluminium from all of its Canadian operations.

Instituto Brasileiro de Mineração (IBRAM), the national mining association in Brazil, today announced that it will adopt the Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative.

The shutdowns are at the company's Allan, Lanigan and Vanscoy potash mines in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The Eagle gold project construction was completed in early July and handed over to the Victoria operations team, one month ahead of schedule and on the revised budget.

Amarjeet Sohi, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, has announced US$3.8 million in funding to the BIOSALIX programme, a renewable energy coal mine reclamation project near Forestburg, Alberta.

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions has developed and built a new materials handling system for an iron ore port in northern Canada for the handling of iron ore from the Mary River mine.

Pacton Gold receives an exploration drilling permit for the Red Lake Gold project from the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines.

Corvus Gold Inc. has finalised a private placement financing with AngloGold Ashanti Inc.

Rubicon Minerals Corp. plans to release the summary of results of a new Preliminary Economic Assessment on the Phoenix Gold project.