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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Timmins Gold gets San Francisco production-ready [7/18/2008]
A new crusher is on the way to Timmins Gold's (TMM-V) San Francisco heap leach open pit operation in Sonora state... [Full Story]

Young-Davidson returns long, strong intercepts for Northgate [7/18/2008]
Vancouver - After a preliminary economic assessment found its Young-Davidson gold project in Ontario just economic,... [Full Story]

Golden Predator and Midway to merge [7/18/2008]
Vancouver - Golden Predator Mines (GP-T) is determined to grow. Only a few months after manoeuvring a takeover of F... [Full Story]

Construction of Infinito Gold's Crucitas project expected in 18 months [7/18/2008]
Costa Rica lifted its 2002 moratorium on open-pit gold mining in March and foreign miners in the country are heavin... [Full Story]

Aurelian does what it can in Ecuador [7/18/2008]
While the winds of uncertainty around foreign mining investment continue to blow in Ecuador, the former darling of ... [Full Story]

First Majestic hits massive sulphide no. 3 [7/17/2008]
The discovery of a third massive sulphide deposit has prompted First Majestic Silver (FM-T, FMV-F) to bring in a fo... [Full Story]

Lundin hits new zinc deposit in Portugal [7/17/2008]
Lundin Mining (LUN-T, LMC-N) has hit upon a new zinc-copper discovery at its Neves-Corvo mine in southern Portugal ... [Full Story]

Indicated resource and grade grows at Teal's Namibian project [7/17/2008]
Teal Exploration & Mining's (TL-T, TEL-J) Otjikoto gold project in Namibia is demonstrating higher grades and res... [Full Story]

Prelim assessment looks positive for Tyhee's Yellowknife gold project [7/17/2008]
Tyhee Development Corp's (TDC-V) gold project in Yellowknife should post a pre-tax internal rate of return of 21.... [Full Story]

Citigroup hikes short-term metallurgical coal price targets [7/17/2008]
Citing continued tight supply, Citigroup has raised its targets for metallurgical coal (hard coking coal) for the n... [Full Story]

Maudore rises on good gold grades [7/16/2008]
Vancouver - A new set of high-grade gold results from the Comtois project in western Quebec gave Maudore Minerals' ... [Full Story]

MagIndustries gets the power [7/16/2008]
The Republic of Congo is finding a way to stop wasting a valuable resource and MagIndustries (MAA-V) is gaining acc... [Full Story]

Alexis Minerals becomes world's newest gold producer [7/16/2008]
Alexis Minerals' (AMC-T) mine at Lac Herbin near Val d'or in Quebec is the world's newest gold producer, churning... [Full Story]

Tournigan grows Kuriskova uranium resource [7/16/2008]
Vancouver - After a modelling error forced Tournigan Energy (TVC-V) to reduce the resources at its Kuriskova uraniu... [Full Story]

Los Andes upgrades Vizcachitas [7/16/2008]
Vancouver - The last time The Northern Miner caught up with Los Andes Copper (LA-V) they were dealing with a core-b... [Full Story]

Taseko balances progress and prudence in B.C. [7/15/2008]
Williams Lake - In central British Columbia, where pine beetles are choking out the lifeblood lumber industry, Task... [Full Story]

Midasco collects uranium past-producers [7/15/2008]
Vancouver - It's a good time to have acquired uranium past-producers, but it's been tough selling them to the marke... [Full Story]

Editorial: Good news for US miners from Ninth Circuit [7/15/2008]
Miners active in the western U.S. are soaking in a rare bit of good news from the nation's court system. The U.S... [Full Story]

Kinpo plays white knight to Western Prospector [7/15/2008]
Western Prospector Group's (WNP-V, WEPGF-O) confidence that Khan Resources' (KRI-T, KHRIF-O) hostile takeover wou... [Full Story]