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John-Mark Staude, president and CEO of Riverside Resources (left), stands over drill core from the El Capitan gold target, part of the company's Penoles property in Mexico.

Riverside Takes Novel Approach To Exploration

SITE VISIT PENOLES, MEXICO–Other companies missed it, but not Miguel Heredia. He has strong geological legs. Riverside Resources’ (RRI-V, RVSDF-O)Mexico exploration manager strides up the steepening slope of Capitan Hill…


U. S. Markets – Feb. 17-23

Broad U. S. equity indices fell heavily during the Feb. 17-23 reporting period. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 736 points or 9.4% to 7,115, and the S&P 500 index lost 84 points or 10.1%…


Toronto Stock Exchange – Feb. 17-23

Failing to find reasons for optimism in a sagging global economy, investors drove the S&P/TSX composite index down over the Feb. 17-23 reporting period to levels it hasn’t seen in five years. The …


TSX Venture Exchange – Feb. 17-23

It was a red week for the S&P-TSX Venture composite index as the junior board posted a loss every day of the Feb. 17-23 trading period to close the week down 46.7 points at 878.94. Daily trading v…


Preparing the leach pad at Atna Resources' Briggs gold mine in Inyo Cty., Calif. The mine, which began production under Canyon Resources in 1996, has been offline since 2004.

Atna Primed To Pour Gold Again At Briggs

VANCOUVER — It sat idle for five years but now Atna Resources (ATN-T, ATNAF-O) is firing up the Briggs gold mine in Inyo Cty., Calif., and expects to produce its first gold dor soon.



GlobeStar Undaunted By Copper’s Descent

SITE VISIT MAIMON, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — A siren wails as GlobeStar Mining (GMI-T) chairman Larry Ciccarelli addresses a crowd of more than 200 people at the Cerro de Maimon open-pit…


British Columbia's forecasted mineral production by commodity for 2008.

BC Holds Its Own

The performance of exploration and mining industries in British Columbia remained strong in 2008. Exploration spending in the province was $367 million, the second highest yearly expenditure on record…


Uranium And Iron Exploration Gain Momentum In Qubec

Over the past five years, Qubec has experienced an exceptional investment climate for mineral exploration. As of Oct. 7, 2008, more than 273,000 active mining titles were registered throughout the pr…


Former Noront Resources CEO Richard Nemis examines core from the high-grade Eagle One project at McFaulds Lake in far northern Ontario.

McFaulds Lake Discovery Spurs Staking Rush

Noront Resources’ new base metals discovery in the McFaulds Lake area in Ontario’s Far North boosted claim staking and exploration and helped Ontario reach a record number of 367,000 active claims at …


The staked claims in Newfoundland and Labrador as of October 2008.

New Showings, New Metals, New Concepts

Newfoundland and Labrador’s mineral industry had another busy year in 2008, with expenditures on exploration and deposit appraisal estimated at $148 million, similar to 2007 levels. The larger explora…


Postash Corp. of Canada's new mine at Penobsquis.

Mineral Production, Exploration At All-Time Highs

Mineral production in New Brunswick reached an all-time high of nearly $1.57 billion in 2007 and about $46 million is expected to be spent on mineral exploration in the province in 2008, an increase o…


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