DRD nabs 20% of Porgera
South African-based Durban Roodepoort Deep (DROOY-Q) has agreed to acquire Australian-listed Oil Search Ltd.’s 20%…
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Jilbey drills Taranga (October 14, 2003)
Drilling has begun at the Taranga gold permit in Burkina Faso, reports Jilbey Gold Exploration (JIB-V).The prop…
Springlake underground resumes
AfriOre (AFO-T) has resumed underground production at the Springlake anthracite mine, north of Dundee in Kwazulu Na…
Dianor hunts for James Bay diamonds
Radisson, Que. — Dianor Resources (DOR-V) distinguished itself in 2001 by discovering the first diamond in Quebec’s James Bay region and has been following up on that early success with a methodical …
Lonshi production marks watershed in the Copperbelt
Ndola, Zambia — The border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is, physically, the height of land between the Congo River and Zambezi River watersheds.On the ground, it’s scarcely…
News – 13-OCT-03
People (October 13, 2003)
America Mineral Fields — Bernard Pryor and John Bentley appointed directors.Canabrava — Susy Horna appointed corporate secretary.OntZinc — Peter George appointed senior VP of explorati…
The Northern Miner Indices (October 13, 2003)
North American Mining: 87.37 (-0.24)Small Producers: 80.82 (+0.69)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Ontario’s Liberals will have to earn mining’s respect Laws of gravity
“Gouverner, c’est choisir.”– Franois-Gaston duc de Lvis, governor of New France (1759-1760), misattributed to any number of political cliche-artists since.Lvis was right — to govern is to choose …
OGS geologist wins medal
Peter Barnett, a geologist with the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS), has received the 2003 provincial geologist’s medal. The presentation was made during a conference of Canada’s energy and mines mini…
Improved bioleaching
Billions of years before man even dreamed of the golden riches hidden beneath the earth’s surface, naturally occurring microorganisms had been leaching valuable metals out of heaps of mineralized rubb…
Delta-Kenty geophysics spots new targets (October 13, 2003)
Exploration work at the Delta-Kenty property, about 50 km west of the Raglan nickel mine in the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec, has defined several coincident conductive and magnetic bodies in previously …