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Big gains for golds over holiday
The year-end recovery of the gold price proved to be a real jolt in the gold sector, while the broader market moved little. The TSX Composite Index gained only 0.2%, rising 26.89 points to 11,272.26 o…
Hornby Bay perseveres despite market knocks (January 06, 2006)
By most of the usual measures, Toronto-based Hornby Bay Exploration (HBE-V, HRBYF-O) should be an investor favourit…
Midway taps Spring Valley gold (January 06, 2006)
Vancouver – Drilling by Midway Gold (MDW-V, MDWGF-O) on its Spring Valley project, in Pershing Cty, Nevada, continu…
Contractor woes for Randgold
Bad news struck the Randgold Resources (GOLD-Q, RRS-L) camp in Mali, as it was forced to dump an important contract…
Piedras feasibility tweaked for higher price
Consultants for Frontera Copper (FCC-T) have updated the feasibility study for the Piedras Verdes copper project in…
Codelco contractors strike for share of windfall
Chilean copper giant Codelco faced a strike by about half of its contract workers, with protests at the El Teniente…
Beaver Dam overflows (January 05, 2006)
A revised resource figure for the Beaver Dam gold project in central Nova Scotia has nearly doubled the size of the…
Does China’s bite into unsafe mining have teeth?
After years of ineffectualness the Chinese government appears to be getting tough about coal-mining safety. On …
Orezone pulls gold at Sega
Orezone Resources (OZN-T,OZN-X) saw its shares shoot up and fall back down over the last two days – much in line w…
Coeur drills new mineralization at Bayo, Martha (January 04, 2006)
Exploration drilling by Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N, CDM-T) around its Cerro Bayo and Martha mines in Chile and Arge…