Northern Ontario is well-known for its lode gold mines, but few can claim as illustrious a career as Campbell of Placer Dome (PDG-T).Developed in the 1940s, at the height of the Red Lake staking rush,…
To the delight of gold miners and their shareholders worldwide, gold prices broke the US$300-per-oz. barrier in the last week of September as both the European Central Bank and the International Monet…
With metal prices recovering slightly, several juniors are exploring for platinum and palladium north of the 49th Parallel.Following a private placement, Mustang Minerals (MMIN-C) is in the midst of a…
Drilling supplier JKS Boyles has opened a distribution office in Chile in order to reduce Canadian shipments to contractors working in the region.The office also will supply firms working in Peru, Arg…
Junior Pacific Rim Mining (PFG-T) is encouraged by results from first-phase drilling at its wholly owned San Francisco project in northwestern Argentina.Two of the holes, Nos. 12 and 13, were designed…
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$1,185/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$4.50/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.20/lb.Chromium: Mid-mkt ores US$65/t.Cobalt: Recent trades US$16.55-19.00/lb.Copper: Comex Dec. US$0.817/lb.Indium: Indiu…
Partners Crown Resources and Battle Mountain Gold have cleared the latest in a long line of hurdles toward the development of the Crown Jewel gold mine in Washington state.The latest victory stems fro…
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 322.94 points, or 3%, to close at 10,275.53 for the week ended Sept. 28, as gold skyrocketed on news that the European central banks would be curbing gold sales.S…
A recent sale of diamonds from Trivalence Mining’s (TMI-V) 85%-owned, 1,012 sq.-km Aredor diamond mine in Guinea has netted the company US$2.5 million.In total, 5,481.7 carats of rough diamonds were s…
In addition to taking over management of the Illinois Creek gold mine in west-central Alaska, Viceroy Resources (VOY-T) is considering expanding its business to include reclamation services.Under an a…
A summer drilling program has resulted in the discovery of nine new kimberlite pipes on the Ekati claim block in the Lac de Gras area of the Northwest Territories, raising to 121 the number of kimberl…
Sidestepping a takeover bid by Golden Star Resources (GSC-T), junior Birim Goldfields (BGI-T) has signed a deal with Ghana-based Ashanti Goldfields (ASL-N) concerning Birim’s Mampon deposit, pa…
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