Ivanhoe expands Turquoise Hill deposit
With its ever-expanding Turquoise Hill copper-gold project in Mongolia sitting on China’s doorstep, Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T) is poised to offer a critical supply of copper metal to that country.Copper im…
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China lures junior mineral explorers
Vancouver — In its bid to transform itself into a market-oriented economy, China has become the world’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment, and good chunk of it is earmarked for mineral e…
Nevada entrepreneurs
After 44 years and 11 months with the United States Geological Survey, I finally retired in 1981. I was only 70 years old and was certainly not ready to hang it all up. I wanted, and needed, to be pro…
PEOPLE (March 10, 2003)
Arch Coal — Bennett Hatfield appointed president eastern operations.Diadem Resources — Paul Carroll appointed president and CEO; Thomas Skimming appointed vice-chairman; former CEO, Peter Howe, will…
Wheaton River raises $334m
Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) has raised the funds needed to buy the Peaks gold mine in Australia and a quarter-stake in the Bajo de la Alumbrera copper-gold mine in Argentina.In January, Wheaton agr…
Alamos exec stocks up
Recent insider trading transactions reported by the Ontario Securities Commission include the following:q Alamos Minerals (AAS-V) — Chester Millar, director, bought 109,500 shares at 44-50 apiece to…
Exploration heats up again in Mali
Gold prices are back up and explorers are back to work, and it need be no surprise that southwestern Mali, with three gold producers pouring plenty of low-cost ounces, has returned to favour among jun…
Juniors stand to benefit from higher metal demand Conventional wisdom
Back in the days when computers provided their wisdom on green-lined fanfold paper, a simple cartoon used to circulate. A small slope-shouldered man, punctured by a large flat-headed screw, looked out…
Teaching earth sciences to kids
Christine McLelland, a high-school teacher in Englewood, Colo., believes students need to understand the Earth, the processes that created it, and what’s happening to it, and she is addressing that ne…
DFO uses delay tactics: geologist
The Anchorage Daily News recently reported that Alaska Governor Frank Murkowski is defending his controversial plan to take project permit power away from the Habitat Division of the state’s Departmen…
Assean drilling resumes
Drilling is under way again at the Assean Lake property in north-central Manitoba, operated by International Curator Resources (IC-T).The new program entails up to 4,500 metres of drilling, mainly to …
Partners up Tirisano resource
Partners Etruscan Resources (EET-T) and Mountain Lake Resources (MOA-V) have outlined more diamondiferous gravels at their Tirisano alluvial mine in South Africa.Indicated resources now stand at 10.4 …