Resources & Agriculture

Vancouver-based Aurizon Mines Ltd. (TSX:ARZ) has announced a special committee to evaluate a unsolicited takeover bid from Toronto-based Alamos Gold Inc. (TSX:AGI).

Vancouver-based Canfor Corp. (TSX:CFP) has announced that it will invest approximately $40 million in capital improvement projects to increase productivity and recovery at its sawmill in Mackenzie, B.C.

Premier Christy Clark announced January 18 that she has created a new $5 million fund to provide financial protection for forestry contractors. She also announced tax relief on previous compensation payments to those workers.

Cease-traded Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. has announced that it expects to file a revised, compliant technical report on its Cow Mountain gold deposit by the end of February.

An investment of more than $200,000 into technology at five B.C. companies that service the agricultural sector was revealed January 17 by the provincial and federal governments.

The Supreme Court of Western Australia has approved the merger scheme between CGA Mining Limited (TSX:CGA, ASX: CGX) and Vancouver’s B2Gold Corp. (TSX:BTO, OTCQX:BGLPF, NSX:B2G), CGA announced this morning.

Just days before the January 20 anniversary of last year’s fatal Burns Lake mill explosion and fire, the BC Safety Authority (BCSA) today released nine sawmill safety recommendations following its investigation into the incident.

Copper Mountain’s hall of fame inductee looks back on five decades in B.C.’s mining sector

In contrast with yesterday's loud Enbridge protests, First Nations have joined with artists and conservation groups to create a large art installation in downtown Vancouver as a visual expression of their opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker traffic in B.C.

Unionized workers at the idled Springer Creek Forest Products sawmill in Slocan have agreed to a settlement in lieu of severance in the hope the mill may restart.