BHP Billiton’s profits soar
The report period ended Feb. 15 was punctuated by the world’s biggest mining company’s banking the world’s biggest mining profit. For the second half of 2004,
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Douglas Ruttan
Doug Ruttan got to know Canada’s bush country in the most basic of ways: for 40 years he hiked and snow-shoed through it, camped in it, flew over it in bush planes, canoed, and boated across its many…
Renard 2 shows promising grade
With the latest batch of bulk-sample results in hand for Renard 2,
Aquiline offered $100,000 to end suit
Vancouver — With the rising stakes at the Navidad property in Chubut province, Argentina,
Crew signs Philippine deal (February 21, 2005)
U.K.-based
Wheaton-Goldcorp deal comes out on top
Canadian Arrow receives Alexo mining permit (February 21, 2005)
Vancouver — With approvals in hand,
Base metals overview
The divergence between base metal and the economic leading indicators has been one of the major concerns participants have about the current level of high prices, defying the traditionally strong, pro…
Found money? No, mined money
It’s a comet that breezes by periodically, and inevitably it brings talk of the world’s end. Gold prices took a dive in early February on news that the Group of Seven industrialized countries were loo…
Kimber encounters more gold and silver at Monterde
Vancouver — Drill testing of two structures has yielded grades and styles of mineralization similar to those of the Carmen deposit on
Linear raises $25m
On the strength of drill results from the Campamento deposit in Chiapas, Mexico,
Gold at Bahuerachi
Vancouver — Calgary-based