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Silver bulls sent back to the waiting room

With cries of “hi-ho silver!”, a small but vocal army of silver bulls rejoiced as the white metal soared to 16-year highs in the first quarter of 2004. But like so many times before, the euphoria was short-lived.


Photo by Viceroy Exploration -- A drill tests Viceroy Exploration's Gualcamayo gold project in the northern portion of Argentina's San Juan province.

Viceroy rolls the dice in Argentina

Vancouver — Northwestern Argentina is an emerging gold district relative to the prolific, more mature El Indio and Maricunga belts across the mountains in neighbouring Chile. Yet junior companies such as Viceroy Exploration (VY…


Construction of the mill and conveyor belt at the El Sauzal gold project in Mexico.

Glamis looks to Americas for growth

With two low-cost gold mines under construction in Mexico and Guatemala, Glamis Gold (GLG-T) expects to increase its production to more than 600,000 oz. by 2006 at a total projected cash cost of well under US$150 per oz.


The Gidgee gold mine in Western Australia is making money for Legend Mining.

New gold rush in Western Australia

Anyone dismissing the gold potential of the two Western Australian gold mining centres of Sandstone and Gidgee, which are only 90 km apart, will have to think again, as the area appears set to experience a gold rush.



APAC cuts gold at Nibao

Vancouver — APAC Minerals (APC-V) has intersected a new gold-bearing zone at its Nibao project in southwestern China.


Rubicon gains stake in African company

Vancouver — In return for an investment of $1.4 million, Rubicon Minerals (RMX-V) has secured rights to acquire a 29.7% interest in Africo, a private company that controls mineral projects in several African nations, including…


Canyon funds El Aquila

Vancouver — A subsidiary of Denver-based U.S. Gold (USGL-O) has launched an underground program at the El Aquila gold-silver mine in Mexico’s Oaxaca state.


Wayne Reid, St. Andrew Goldfields' exploration manager, and Ellsworth Dickson of Resource World Magazine examine drill core at the Stock Mine east of Timmins.

Clavos shows promise for St Andrew

Timmins, Ont. — Tempora mutantur, said Ovid, though he was probably not thinking about the recovery of the gold market when he did. But in Timmins, the times have changed, enough that a camp that lost one of its major gold producers in 1999 is be…


Open-pit mining of nickel-laterite ore at PT Inco's Saroako operations in Indonesia.

Inco updates Goro

In its preliminary findings from a major review of its 85%-owned Goro nickel-laterite project in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, Inco (N-T) has managed to come up with a new mine plan that will simultaneously lowe…


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