News

Photo by Pattie BealesMark Cullinan, great-grandson of Sir Thomas Cullinan, holds replicas of the Cullinan diamonds at the Indaba 2005 conferernce

Cullinan turns 100

In November 2003, De Beers announced that its flagship Premier mine in South Africa would be renamed the Cullinan diamond mine in celebration of the mine’s centenary. The mine once yielded the Cullina…


Messina cuts zinc

In step-out drilling on its Boomerang base metal discovery in Newfoundland, Messina Minerals (MMI-V) has intersected significant massive sulphides….



Better times as UME bites a fiscal bullet

Calgary-based Uruguay Mineral Exploration (UME-V), the sole miner in the South American country whose name it bears, is meeting production targets and starting to reduce costs at th…



lonore bigger, better

Drilling by Virginia Gold Mines (VIA-T) is expanding gold mineralization at the lonore property in the Opineca reservoir region of Quebec….


Spot Prices Tuesday, March 1, 2005 Courtesy of Scotiabank

Precious Metals Price (US$/oz.) Change
Gold $434.65 +3.90
Silver $7.26 -0.29
Platinum<...






Copper proving profitable

The week of Feb. 23-March 1 saw the price of gold rise 60, to US$433.45 where it closed in the afternoon in London. The gold index fell 9.7 points to close at 205.42. The diversified metals and minin…


By continuing to browse you agree to our use of cookies. To learn more, click more information

Dear user, please be aware that we use cookies to help users navigate our website content and to help us understand how we can improve the user experience. If you have ideas for how we can improve our services, we’d love to hear from you. Click here to email us. By continuing to browse you agree to our use of cookies. Please see our Privacy & Cookie Usage Policy to learn more.

Close