Uranium gaining attention in Namibia
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Going for gold in Colombia
Santiago, Chile — Gold exploration in Colombia will top US$30 million this year as the country shapes up to be a key prospect over the next decade for miners looking to this forgotten part of the wor…
A tale of three Alaskan mines
Anchorage, Alaska — Alaska is twice the size of Texas, occupies one-fifth of the land mass of the United States, and has a population of 627,000 — roughly one person per square mile — and almost ha…
Barrick’s rocky road to El Dorado
Santiago, Chile — It looks increasingly likely that Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) will be able to build its controversial Pascua-Lama mine high in the Andes mountains, but the project’…
Juniors smitten by lonore
Spurred by Goldcorp‘s (G-T, GG-N) recent vote of confidence, exploration is heating up around Virginia Gold Mines‘ (VIA-T) lonore gold discovery in the James Bay re…
Exeter expands La Cabeza
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De Beers leads next diamond wave
As part of a second wave of new diamond mines coming on-stream in Canada, De Beers is spending $1.6 billion to build two new mines — the Snap Lake underground mine in the Northwest T…
Not your grandfather’s Abitibi
Malartic, Que. — When James Norrie sent his steam drills up the trails from the railway line in the 1930s, the only exploration model in his head was the wildcatter’s principle: drill it and see. Sev…
New secondary market liability in Ontario
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People (March 06, 2006)
Golden Phoenix Mnrls — David Caldwell appointed president and COO….
Toronto Stock Exchange february 21-27
The Toronto Stock Exchange retreated 159.29 points to 11,706.47 during the five trading days ended Feb. 27. The gold index fell 4% to 265.39 as the underlying commodity shed US$1.25 to US$553.25. The…
TSX Venture Exchange february 21-27
Stronger precious metal prices helped the junior-resource-dominated S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index inch up 4.15 points to close the Feb. 21-27 trading session at 2,543.33. Average daily trading v…