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Voters in Montana turned down a ballot measure that would have overturned an earlier state prohibition on the use of cyanide in gold or silver mining.

Vancouver — Robust commodity prices have enabled Teck Cominco (TEK-T) to report record earnings for the fourth consecutive quarter.

Vancouver — St. Jude Resources (SJD-V) plans to carry out a feasibility study of the Benso and Hwini Butre properties in Ghana, in light of a resource estimate by Watts Griffis & McOuat.

The decline at the Clavos project, east of Timmins, Ont., being driven by Dumas Contracting for owner St Andrew Goldfields (SAS-T), has reached the 200-metre level.

A property deal with a private vendor has given Osisko Exploration (OSK-V) an option on the Canadian Malartic property, 25 km west of Val d’Or, Que.

A prefeasibility study of the Ho Gan gold deposit in central Vietnam has concluded that small-scale production could be profitable.

Shares in Southern Cross Resources (SXR-T) plummeted as much as 25, or 30%, to a 52-week low of 58 in early trading in Toronto on Nov. 1 after the company said increased capital costs would force it to delay development of the…

Vancouver — NovaGold Resources (NG-T) has intersected significant copper, gold and silver mineralization during an 8-hole, 2,700-metre drill program at the Galore Creek project in northwestern British Columbia.