AFRICA — Aussie firm commissions Damang
Australian-listed Ranger Minerals is commissioning the Damang gold mine in Ghana, a large, open-pit deposit considered to be one of the continent’s top five gold projects outside of South Africa.Produ…
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AFRICA — Hartley mine ships PGM’s
The Hartley platinum mine in Zimbabwe is expected to reach full production by the end of 1998, reports operator Broken Hill Proprietary.The Australian-based company made its first shipment of platinum…
AFRICA — Orezone cuts gold at Intiedougou — Magnetics, radiometrics useful in mapping host rocks
Drilling at the Intiedougou property in western Burkina Faso has uncovered promising gold mineralization in unweathered rock below known oxidized gold mineralization.Tropical weathering in West Africa…
AFRICA — Nigeria seeks mineral investment
Nigeria is seeking foreign investment to revitalize its mineral sector.The West African nation is considered to be a single-product economy, with oil accounting for 90% of its gross domestic product. …
AFRICA — Top ten exploration spenders continue to invest in Africa
African projects were not ignored by the ten largest spenders of exploration dollars in 1997.A study by Metals Economic Group shows that 10 companies — BHP Minerals, Rio Tinto, Placer Dome (PDG-T), N…
Anvil Range shuts Faro again — Company granted protection from creditors
Financially troubled Anvil Range Mining (ARO-T) has been granted court protection from its creditors by the Ontario Court (General Division).The company will be protected, until Feb. 16, under the Com…
Rio options Green Bay
Rio Algom (ROM-T) can earn a 60% interest in the Green Bay base metal poperty, held by Major General Resources (MGJ-V) in northwestern Newfoundland.To do so, Rio must spend $3 million on exploration a…
Mar-West, Curion place gold project on fast track
Mar-West Resources (MSR-V) and partner Curion Ventures (CUV-V) are proceeding with a $2-million work program aimed at advancing the Sinter Dome hot springs gold deposit in central Honduras to the feas…
Partners persevere at Lew
Thunderwood Resources (THS-T) and partner Consolidated Abitibi Resources (CAQ-M) have begun a new program of drilling at the Lew volcanogenic massive sulphide property, 20 km east of Flin Flon, Man.Tw…
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Caption ‘inaccurate’
The caption accompanying the front-page photograph on your Jan. 12-18 issue is inaccurate at best, and downright vindictive at worst.If John Felderhof was unaware of the salting scam at Busang, the wo…
Commission urges probe of Noril’sk sale
A government commission in Russia has called for a halt to the privatization the Noril’sk Mining and Metallurgical Kombinat.The commission has recommended that the recent sale of the government’s rema…