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STOCK MARKET — Base metals rise as golds struggle

With the exception of the gold stocks, the Toronto Stock Exchange advanced over the report period Oct. 23-29 with most sectors showing strength. The TSE 300 composite index finished the period 32.09 p…


ODDS’N’SODS — The nose knows

In the summer of 1961, a mining company hired me, a summer geology student, to assist Bill Mundle in mapping a property that had recently been optioned from a local prospector and his partners.The pro…



Production levels rise for gold, most base metals

Canadian production of gold, nickel, refined copper and lead in August 1996 rose above levels recorded in the same period last year, whereas output of silver, primary copper and iron were down.Product…



Bre-X cements “strategic alliance”

As two Indonesian companies and their Australian backer dispute the title to its Busang gold deposit, Bre-X Minerals (BXM-T) has moved to cement a relationship with a powerful friend.Bre-X and spinoff…


Gen. Minerals hits high grade

General Minerals (GNM-T) has encountered a previously unknown zone of high-grade massive sulphide mineralization while drifting at the Huang Shui Gou copper-gold project in China.The dipping structure…


Bema, Arizona Star drill Cerro Casale project

The latest deep drilling results from the Cerro Casale project at the Aldebaran property in northern Chile continue to confirm the grade and continuity of the main sulphide gold-copper porphyry body l…


Nelson Gold halts operations

Mining and milling operations at the Jilau mine in Tajikistan have been halted for the second time this year, pending resolution of an impasse between operator Nelson Gold (NLG-T) and the Tajikistani …



Santa Fe gets nod to expand Lone Tree

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved the proposed expansion of the Lone Tree gold mine southwest of Winnemucca, Nev.Santa Fe Pacific Gold (GLD-N) may now extend the mine’s main pit into Sec…


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