Placer hits new zone at East Bay
Drilling by Placer Dome (PDG-T) has intersected a new zone and expanded known zones of gold mineralization at the E…
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Northern Star hits gold at Midway
A drilling program by Northern Star Mining (nsm-v) is testing new and known targets at the Midway gold property nea…
Seabridge examines options for Grassy Mountain
Toronto-based Seabridge Gold (sea-t) is continuing efforts to advance its wholly owned Grassy Mountain gold project…
Gitennes Continues Focus on Peru
As part of a joint venture with Meridian Gold (mng-t), Vancouver-based Gitennes Exploration (git-t) expects to begi…
BHP Options Aussie Project
Mega-miner BHP Billiton (bhp-n) has decided to exercise an option to earn into an Australian nickel-copper project…
Higher aluminum prices forecast
We expect base metal prices to continue to perform strongly over the near term, even though we have already seen multi-year highs. We also believe the rising price cycle will turn after this year.In t…
Meguma gold enjoys revival
A small Nova Scotian exploration company led by William Felderhof believes a geological model developed by an Aussie junior to exploit the Bendigo goldfields in Australia is applicable to gold deposit…
Study offers bright snapshot of Oyu Tolgoi
An independent scoping study has concluded that Ivanhoe Mines’ (IVN-T) Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in southern Mongolia has sufficient and rich-enough mineralization to warrant mining.The study eva…
Placer Dome eyes US$2.2-billion gold project pipeline
Vancouver — Maintaining production levels following a period of rapid growth is never easy, but with four major gold deposits sitting in its property pipeline, Placer Dome (PDG-T) aims to do just tha…
Gold gives Nicaragua much-needed boost
Few countries have as sad a tale to tell as Nicaragua. Ravaged by a decade of civil war and strangled by a U.S. trade embargo in the 1980s, her economy was just beginning to recover when Hurricane Mit…
Agnico-Eagle’s gold reserves approach 8 million oz. (March 08, 2004)
A year of furious drilling has allowed Agnico-Eagle Mines (AGE-T) to nearly double reserves to 7.9 million oz. gold at the LaRonde mine and nearby Lapa and Goldex exploration properties in northwester…
Gold miners stalk quarry in elephant country
Ghana was once known as “the gold coast of Africa,” and, with annual production of 2.3 million oz., the country remains the second-largest gold-producing nation on the continent.With the recent upswin…