Recovery of gold from a surface pillar at the old Siscoe mine property near Val d’Or, Que., is estimated to be more than 2,000 oz., Mines Dynacor (ME) says. Drilling and channeling this summer in the …
Vancouver-based Western Copper Holdings (TSE) has acquired 4.6 million common shares of Thermal Exploration from Queenston Mining (TSE). As a consideration, Western Copper has issued to Queenston 600,…
Four holes have been drilled by Canmine Resources (ASE) to test the Island zone geophysical anomaly on its Fer base metal property near Flin Flon, Man. The best assay returned 0.009 oz. gold and 0.88 …
Controversial Vancouver promoter Robert Friedland is severing his ties with Vengold (TSE). Friedland sold 2.8 million shares to several arm’s-length investors, plus 445,000 shares in a private transac…
The Spanish Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal by Exminesa related to royalties owing to Mount Wright Iron Mines (CDN) from the lead-zinc-silver Rubiales mine in Spain. Exminesa was appealing…
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the U.S. expects world coal consumption to increase by 30% between 1990 and 2010, from 5.1 billion to 6.5 billion tons. Five regions stand out as major f…
A major world gold producer for many years, Russia now ranks fifth on an international level, behind South Africa, the U.S., Australia and Canada. Russia produced about 65% of the former Soviet Union’…
A graduate student of the University of Nevada, in Reno, has been trying to help Homestake Mining save on its air-conditioning bill at its deep gold mine in South Dakota. Ian Duckworth, a mining engin…
A government grant worth $241,050 will help finance a feasibility study of a spodumene mine and a lithium carbonate plant in Quebec. Montreal-listed partners Charlim Explorations and Wrightbar Mines e…
Multi-national De Beers Consolidated Mines is operating an exploration program on the Yamba Lake property in the Lac de Gras region of the Northwest Territories. The international diamond company can …
A surging dollar, coupled with lower interest rates, failed to ignite the Toronto Stock Exchange during the 5-day report period ended Sept. 13. The composite 300 index was off by 2.95 points to end th…
Despite the firming of eastern major markets and gold’s creep upwards to the US$390-per-oz. level, western markets continued to slide during the report period ended Sept. 13. The Vancouver Stock Excha…
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