Cariboo Rose Resources Announces Carruthers Pass Results, BC

MarketWatch (press release) The core samples were split and sent to ALS Minerals Laboratories in North Vancouver, BC The Carruthers Pass volcanogenic massive sulfide project is located 70 km south of the Kemess copper-gold mine in the Omineca Mining Division. … Click for more

Four Square for Northern British Columbia

If you are a retail business that has customers come to you door you need to be on Four Square. If you are not you are missing out on the marketing for your business with the tech savvy generation. In order to be “on” Four Square you need to understand what it is and how [...]

Stikine Energy Collects 500 Tonnes

Stikine Energy (TSXV-SKY) recently removed 500 tonnes of samples from the Frac Sand Project near Bear lake, which is 60 km north of Prince George, BC on Highway 97. The samples were removed in early March 2011 and trucked to the the pilot plant operation in Abbotsford BC. The material will be processed and utilized [...]

Conifex Timber Inc. Appoints Chief Operating Officer

Marketwire (press release) Mr. Horsnell is a Forestry Graduate from the University of British Columbia and obtained his MBA from Royal Roads University … Click for more

Asian forest products group restarts B.C. paper mill

Montreal Gazette … Tembec Inc.’s two pulp mills in France for $133 million has completed the acquisition of the Mackenzie softwood pulp mill north of Prince George, BC. … Click for more

Mount Milligan signs deal

BCLocalNews … contract for the copper/gold mine between Fort St. James and Mackenzie. … a wholly-owned enterprise of the McLeod Lake Indian Band, and Ledcor CMI … Click for more

B.C. Hydro widens hunt for biomass power sources

Victoria Times Colonist BC Hydro is widening the definition of biomass energy with a new green-power call that … the Smithers/Fort St. James corridor, Mackenzie, northeast BC, … Click for more

Mount Milligan construction to start this year

Lakes District News Mining Association of BC president Pierre Gratton said the Mt. Milligan project is part of a renaissance in the BC mining sector. … Click here for more

Mackenzie, BC’s revival continues

Globe and Mail A year ago, Mackenzie was the symbol of the hard times in rural BC’s forest-dependent communities. Starting late in 2007, the town’s six mills shut down one … Click for more

Mayor says re-opening of mill will dig town ‘out of very deep hole’

The Canadian Press Bell said the mill will pump an annual $300 million into BC’s economy and breathe new life into a town that lost 1500 heavy industry jobs just over the last … Click for more

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