Bre-X action names Barrick
Claiming that Barrick Gold (ABX-T) knew as early as October 1996 that Bre-X Minerals’ Busang gold deposit was a hoax, lawyers representing shareholders in a class-action suit have named the gold produ…
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Franco buys Stillwater royalty from Johns Manville
In the biggest acquisition in company history, Franco-Nevada Mining (FN-T) purchased Johns Manville’s last remaining royalty interest in the Stillwater platinum-palladium mine in Montana.The Toronto-b…
Semafo drills West African nickel and gold concessions
Semafo (SMF-T) has released encouraging results from recent drilling at its Kaloum, Jean-Gobele and Lopal concessions in Guinea and Burkina Faso in western Africa.At the Kaloum/Mount Kakoulima concess…
Dayton posts year-end loss
Increased gold production for Vancouver-based Dayton Mining (DAY-T) was no match for higher costs and lower gold prices in 1997.Dayton’s wholly owned Andacollo open-pit gold mine in Chile produced 91,…
Sulliden doubles resource
Sulliden Exploration (SUE-M) has upped its resource estimate for the Los Socavones epithermal gold zone on its 100%-owned Las Huaquillas property in northwestern Peru.The new estimate pegs Los Socavon…
Property writedowns keep TVX in red ink
Lower cash costs at several of its operations were not sufficient to prevent TVX Gold (TVX-T) from reporting a loss of US$50 million (or 36cents per share) for 1997.The medium-tier producer reduced to…
LATIN AMERICA — Sand River revs up in Chihuahua
Expectations are running high at the Piedras Verdes project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state, where Sand River Resources (SRIV-C) is embarking on a 1,500- to 2,000-metre program of diamond drilling.The Van…
LATIN AMERICA — Cyprus options Mexican porphyry target
Cyprus Amax Minerals (CYM-N) has optioned the Opata copper project in Mexico’s Sonora state from Vancouver-based junior Jaba (JBA-A).Cyprus can earn a 50% interest in the 44-sq.-km project by spending…
Noront, Ateba deal option
An option deal with a private company will facilitate $1 million of exploration on the Fletcher Lake property, in the Lac de Gras area of the Northwest Territories.Joint venture partners Noront Resour…
Nuinsco drills at Lac Rocher (April 06, 1998)
However obsolete prospectors may seem to bureaucrats in several provincial mines departments, those in northwestern Quebec persist in turning up new mineralization to drill.Nuinsco Resources (NWI-T) h…
LATIN AMERICA — Conquistador outlines Colombian deposit
California-based Conquistador Mines (cql-v) has reported encouraging drill results from Zone 5 at its Marmato property in west-central Colombia.Highlights from surface drilling include the following:*…
Behre Dolbear strikes deal in Saudi Arabia
In a departure from its usual practice of supplying geological consulting services to North America’s mining industry, Behre Dolbear has entered into a multi-million-dollar contract to provide financi…