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While De Beers Consolidated Mines’ (DBRSY-Q) successful $5-per-share bid for Winspear Diamonds signalled a desperate wish to secure Canadian diamond production, its bid for Australia’s Ashton Mining s…

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Gold Funds as of September 7, 2000Dynamic MutualCentral FundNet Value$12.84$5.39Price…

Debt-burdened Northgate Exploration (NGX-T) is trying to accomplish something Peggy Witte’s Royal Oak Mines couldn’t do — turn the Kemess mine, 300 km northwest of Mackenzie, B.C., into an economical…

“Perseverance” may well have been the unofficial theme of this year’s joint convention of the Quebec Prospectors Association (APQ) and the Quebec Association of Professional Geologists and Geophysicis…

Corner Bay Minerals (BAY-T) has recently completed an 8,100-metre drill program on its Alamo Dorado silver-gold project in Sonora, Mexico.An independent consulting firm is evaluating the results. A ne…

A drill program by Globex Mining Enterprises (GMX-T) will further test the Lyndhurst massive sulphide discovery near Rouyn-Noranda, Que. Also under way is a stripping program at a nickel-platinum grou…

Sept. 25-26 6th Annual Conference on Environmental Law & Regulation in Alberta — Calgary, Alta. Contact Canadian Institute. Tel: (877) 927-7936. Web site: www.canadianinstitute.com.

I recently read The Great Years by Lewis Green, on the history of the Bridge River gold mines in British Columbia. Green, a former Geological Survey of Canada geologist, begins by outlining the early …

Commerce One/SAPMarkets has been selected as the technology provider for the Global Mining and Metals Procurement Marketplace.The firm beat out California rivals Oracle and Ariba in a two-day, seven-c…

Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$272.80-$2.50Silver$ 4.88-$0.07…