Apollo Gold sizes up Black Fox near Timmins
Armed with nearly 83,000 metres of drilling in 296 holes, Apollo Gold (APG-T) has tabled an initial reserve estimate for the Black Fox gold project, near Timmins, Ont.Based on a gold price cutoff of U…
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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…
Island of Sardinia wakes up to mineral exploration
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…
UME whips San Gregorio into shape
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…
Spot Prices Tuesday, March 2, 2004 Courtesy of Scotiabank
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$398.60-2.85Silver$6.86 +0.32Platinum$887.00+30.00…
Olympus boosts stake in Phuoc Son
Shares in Olympus Pacific Minerals (OYM-V) dropped nearly 10% in early trading in Vancouver on March 1 after the company announced an all-share deal to boost its stake in the Phuoc Son gold project in…
The Northern Miner Indices (March 08, 2004)
North American Mining: 111.15 (+2.43)Small Producers: 123.03 (+0.61)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Exchange Rates (March 08, 2004)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)DateMarch 2March 1Feb. 27Feb. 26Feb. 25US$ in C$1.34311.33911.34011.3…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (March 08, 2004)
DateMarch 2March 1Feb. 27Feb. 26Feb. 25HighLowTSX Composite8808.00…
First Associates’ Poirier favours Glencairn
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…
Hard to kill
“Prospectors foregathered to the number of about 150 in Toronto on Tuesday to form an association and to formally protest against the passage of the proposed Engineers Act. Organization was quickly pe…
