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From left to right: Phillips Baker Jr., president of Hecla Mining and Thomas Fudge Jr., vice-president of operations and president of Hecla Venezuela, stand by ore displayed at Hecla's La Camorra mine.

Hecla to step up production at La Camorra in Venezuela

Canaima, Venezuela — The La Camorra mine in southeastern Venezuela is set to pour its millionth ounce at the beginning of the second quarter. This milestone will be closely followed by a new era of production with the completion of a 600-metre ve…



Field personnel personnel prepare a geological survey grid on Ashton Mining of Canada's Foxtrot property in the Otish mountains of north-central Quebec.

Ashton, Soquem await final results at Renard

Although results are still pending for more than half of a 635-tonne bulk sample collected from a core area of the Renard kimberlite cluster in north-central Quebec, it would appear that the lack of big-carat stones, combined with a growing percen…


Queenston gains new zone east of McBean

Deep drilling by Queenston Mining (QMI-T) at the Princeton property, 15 km east of Kirkland Lake, Ont., has revealed a new zone of gold mineralization east of the former McBean gold mine.


APAC to merge with Asian merchant bank

Vancouver — Vancouver’s APAC Minerals (APC-V) intends to merge with Golden China, a Toronto-based private merchant bank. The move is designed to give APAC better access to China’s mining industry.


Pele strikes gold zone at Wawa

Pele Mountain Resources (GEM-V) has found significant gold while prospecting at its Highland property, 50 km northeast of Wawa, in Riggs Twp., Ont.



Apollo pours gold at Standard

Vancouver — Denver-based Apollo Gold (APG-T) has poured its first gold-silver dor bar from the Standard mine in northwestern Nevada.



Way cleared for Kensington

Vancouver — The U.S. Forest Service has cleared the way for all other federal and state permitting to begin on Coeur d’Alene Mines‘ (CDE-N) Kensington gold project, 45 miles north of Juneau, Alaska.


Tsunami disaster teaches lesson

Spurred by countless heart-wrenching, as well as heart-warming, stories from the mega-catastrophe generated by the tsunami along the coasts of southern Asia on Dec. 26, many individual Canadians (as well as some concerned mining companies) have re…


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