Nevada Pacific Gold steps up work
Through a portfolio of six gold exploration projects and one silver project in the state, Nevada Pacific Gold (NPG-V) controls some 100 sq. miles of mineral rights, covering portions of several prolif…
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Gold Canyon targets gallium in Humboldt Cty.
Vancouver — Gold Canyon Resources (GCU-V) has set its sights on the high-tech metal gallium at past-producing mercury mines in northwestern Nevada.Last year the company acquired the leasehold rights …
Richard Franks
Richard Franks, a taxation manager with Rio Algom, has died after a lengthy illness. He was 50.Franks started as a junior tax clerk with Rio Algom after attending the University of Western Ontario. He…
Africa needs international investment more than aid: Oppenheimer
The following is a condensed portion of a speech given by Nicky Oppenheimer, chairman of De Beers, to the first annual gala dinner of the Canada-South Africa Chamber of Business, held in Toronto in Ap…
Red Emerald eyes Midway gold project
Epithermal gold prospects dot the countryside of central Nevada, but Red Emerald Resource (RED-V) is attempting to connect the ones found at its Midway property into an actual deposit.Midway lies betw…
Canaccord gets cash infusion from Manulife
Vancouver-based Canaccord, whose subsidiary, Canaccord Capital, serves as a brokerage house for a number junior mining companies in Canada, has reached a deal to sell 20% of its outstanding shares to …
Rio Narcea ups production forecast
Rio Narcea Gold Mines (RNG-T) pumped out 29,336 oz. gold at its El Valle mine in May — more than twice the previous monthly production record for the Spanish operation.The company says the pace shoul…
Aurizon drills deep into Casa Berardi
Narrow-vein miner Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T) has begun a deep drilling program in hopes of outlining more mineralized material at the past-producing Casa Berardi gold mine in northwestern Quebec.After purc…
People for the West
People who make their living by mining in the United States have perhaps found the past year or so a little more congenial than in the preceding decade. From the repeal of some of the measures in the …
Stratoni dodges bullet, another on the way
The Conseil d’tat, Greece’s supreme administrative court, has rejected a local action group’s request for an immediate suspension of TVX Gold’s (TVX-T) Stratoni silver-lead-zinc operation.However, at…
Doyon wins rescue contest
A crew from Cambior’s Doyon gold mine, near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., has won the annual Quebec mine rescue competition.The competition, held at Malartic, brought together four teams that had won prelimina…
Silver in recovery mode
Silver fabrication demand should recover strongly in 2002 as the world’s economies pick up steam, according to World Silver Survey 2002, published by the Washington-D.C.-based Silver Institute.The cur…