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LionOre aims to expand its den

Armed with a new US$116-million credit facility, Lionore Mining International (LIM-T, LIM-A) has launched an aggressive growth campaign aimed at tripling nickel production to 80,000…


Lihir suffers landslide (October 24, 2005)

Miner Lihir Gold (LIHRY-Q, LHG-A) expects to resume full production at its Lihir Island pressure-oxidation and carbon-in-leach processing plant in Papua New Guinea in early November…


Remembering Operation Franklin

On Sept. 21 and 22, 2005, a 50-year reunion was held in Calgary celebrating Operation Franklin — the bold, large-scale geological mapping effort that took place in the Arctic in 1955….


Whistle blown on Refco (October 24, 2005)

The trust customers and investors place in a business leader is so hard to quantify, yet so critical to a business venture’s success. And when that trust disappears, it can leave so fast it takes your…


Canico says no to Brazil’s CVRD

The board of directors of Canico Resource (CNI-T) has unanimously recommended that its shareholders reject an unsolicited takeover offer from diversified Brazilian miner Co…


Western Prospector refuels treasury

Vancouver — Riding the uranium wave, Western Prospector Group (WNP-V) has arranged a $21-million financing to recharge its treasury as it advances work on the Saddle Hills project…


Burton at Vancouver luncheon

At the next luncheon meeting of the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, William Burton, Western Canadian Coal‘s (WTN-T) vice-president of…


Toromocho continues to grow

Vancouver — An updated resource estimate has further boosted the size of Peru Copper‘s (PCR-T, CUP-X) Toromocho project located in the Morococha district of central Peru, about 140…



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