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BHP Billiton (BHP-N) has bid US$7.3 billion in cash for Australian-based WMC Resources (WMC-N). The offer translates as A$7.85 per share, for a total value of A$9…

Vancouver — Comaplex Minerals (CMF-T) is set to receive its second major financial investment from Gold Fields (GFI-N) in three months….

Agnico-Eagle Mines (AGE-T) had a stellar fourth quarter at its LaRonde mine, 40 km east of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., and ended the year with record production of gold and base metals….

Reverse-circulation and diamond drilling by Orezone Resources (OZN-T) has intersected multiple zones of footwall mineralization beneath the Main zone at the Essakan gold project in…

Apollo Gold (APG-T) has hit significant base metal and silver mineralization at the Black Fox project, 75 km east of Timmins and 8 km east of Matheson, Ont….

Citizen protests leading up to the Feb. 27 parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan shut off access to Centerra Gold‘s (CG-T) Kumtor mine for four days, causing the company to scale ba…

Vancouver — Record fourth quarter production from its Kemess gold-copper mine propelled Northgate Minerals (NGX-T) to a record year in 2004….

Harmony Gold Mining (HMY-N) will ask South Africa’s Securities Regulation Panel for permission to extend its all-stock takeover offer for bigger rival Gold Fields…

Vancouver — New mineral royalty company International Royalty (IRC-T) has hit the boards with one of the larger junior-mining initial public offerings (IPOs) recently seen, raising…