Is a Cassiar Revival in Sight?
SITE VISIT Cassiar, B.C. — For more than 10 years, Cassiar was a ghost town. The northern B.C. town had thrived on an asbestos mine for 40 years but in…
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LME Warehouse Levels (October 29, 2007)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Oct. 22, 2007 (change from Oct. 15 in brackets):
Tower Hill Finds Niche With AngloGold’s Alaska Portfolio
SITE VISIT Fairbanks, Alaska — Assembling a decent portfolio of exploration projects in a region as vast and remote as Alaska can be an expensive and protracted task. International Tower…
Niblack Goes Underground to Decode Vms Showings
SITE VISIT Ketchikan, Alaska — The float plane skims along the water, delivering visitors to the rugged shores of Prince of Wales Island. Steep, thickly forested hills rise up out…
Canadian Royalties Dashes Ahead With Nunavik
SITE VISIT Kangiqsujuaq, Que. — A stone figure peers down at the cluster of tents and stacked crates of drill core samples at Canadian Royalties’ (CZZ-T, CRYAF-O) Mequillon camp, part…
Siberian Diamonds Chases Next Big Russian Find
Paul Sobie has spent a good amount of time looking at diamond projects.
Fifth Zone the Charm for Redhawk
Vancouver — A resource estimate for the American Eagle porphyry at Redhawk Resources’ (RDK-V, RHWKF-O) Copper Creek project, in Arizona, estimates the deposit hosts 1.54 billion lbs. of copper, makin…
Mercator Taking Run at Tyler
Copper producer Mercator Minerals (ML-T, MLKKF-O) has announced it will make a takeover offer for Calgary-based explorer Tyler Resources (TYS-V, TYRRF-O), to gain control of Tyler’s Bahuerachi copper …
ATW Venture Buys Gold Mine Down Under
Vancouver — ATW Venture (ATW-V) has cut a deal to buy a gold mining operation and surrounding land package in a historic gold belt in Western Australia.
Producer and Dealer Prices (October 29, 2007)
Antimony : Mid-mkt US$5,570/t.
Daily Metal Prices (October 29, 2007)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)
Burkina Faso Red Hot for Gold Deals
Normally at this time of year, the only thing heating up in the vast, dry Sahel of Burkina Faso is its red sands. But with two deals involving two of the more prominent Canadian-based junior gold comp…