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…
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…
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…
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…
Geologists are a rugged bunch, usually working without many of the amenities we commonly take for granted and in places where most of us would fear to tread. Well, that’s true of most geologists. Then…
Montevideo, Uruguay — One man’s poison has proved to be another man’s meat in Uruguay, thanks to Australian ingenuity, persistence, and good timing.Uruguay Mineral Exploration (UME-V) has not only tr…
North American Mining: 111.15 (+2.43)Small Producers: 123.03 (+0.61)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
The following is the first in a series of articles concerned with the stock picks of a select group of mining analysts and newsletter writers who follow the junior retail mining sector closely. This w…
Kniba, Mali — If West Africa has been the gold industry’s elephant country in the past decade, it is the Senegal-Mali shear zone where the biggest trophies have been bagged.The biggest, certainly, …
With shares trading at about $35, Southwestern Resources (SWG-T) has been given a rousing vote of confidence for its exploration efforts at the Boka gold project in southern China.The Vancouver-based …
Leon, Nicaragua — Glencairn Gold (GGG-T) has begun a major hunt for new reserve ounces around its aging El Limon gold mine in Nicaragua.The Toronto-based junior acquired a 95% stake in the mine last …
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