Minefinders boosts Dolores (March 27, 2000)
The first 15 holes of an ongoing infill drill program at Minefinders’ (MFL-V) wholly owned Dolores gold-silver project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state continue to enhance the high-grade portion of the res…
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Drills turn at Royce diamond project
Monopros, the Canadian exploration division of De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBRS-Q), is drill-testing prospective targets on the Royce diamond claims, 150 km northwest of Yellowknife, N.W.T.A till-sam…
NovaGold plans drilling near Nome
NovaGold Resources (NRI-T) is about to begin infill and confirmation drilling on the Rock Creek gold property, north of Nome, Alaska.The property contains a measured indicated and inferred resource of…
MEETINGS (March 27, 2000)
March 28 Bomax — annualMarch 28 Essex — annualMarch 28 Int’l Alliance — annual, generalMarch 29 Int’l Skyline — annual, general, specialMarch 29 Kans…
Arena Gold picks up property
Val d’Or, Que.-based Arena Gold Resources (ARN-M) has signed a preliminary agreement with Italian-based Mining Italiana to acquire a 90% interest the Dompem gold and diamond prospect in Ghana’s Tarkwa…
Aur spurned again
Aur Resources’ (AUR-T) 2-week-old bid to acquire a 76.5% interest in the Quebrada Blanca open-pit copper mine in Chile came to an abrupt end as one of the mine’s remaining shareholders, Chilean-based …
Juniors shift to PGMs
With gold prices still hovering around US$300 per oz., exploration companies are increasingly seeking other commodities, including platinum group metals (PGM), according to a report published by Halif…
Rockwell funds Brazilian project
Rockwell Ventures (RCW-V) has raised the remainder of the $2.2 million needed to begin development at its Pedra Blanca platinum group elements project in Brazil.Financing for the project was raised un…
Tombstone Park article fear-mongering
I was bemused to read the opinion by Vivian Danielson entitled “Yukon miners cry ‘foul’ over Tombstone park process” (T.N.M., March 6/00). Perhaps a better title would have been “Crusading Toronto pub…
Second Romanian dam breaks
A tailings dam at the Baia Borsa base metal mine in northwestern Romania has broken, sending more waste into the Tisza River, a tributary of the Danube.Like the tailings dam at the Baia Mare gold proj…
Robex nixes $300,000 financing Chinese venture to get cash infusion
Ste-Foy, Que.-based Robex Resources (RBX-M) says “technical reasons” forced it to cancel a $300,000 financing plan a little more than a month after it was announced.However, the company raised $500,00…
Fraud artists target Canadian mineral explorers
A Toronto mining executive is warning Canadian juniors against a scheme in which companies are promised introductions to European investors eager to own mining shares.William Burton, president of Toro…