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Growing gold producer Cambior (TSE) plans to develop Peru’s La Granja copper project. The Val d’Or, Que.-based company, which operates the Omai gold mine in Guyana, can acquire La Granja outright by i…

A first phase of drilling has wound down on Teck’s (TSE) Thunder Lake West gold project in northwestern Ontario. In total, 34 holes were drilled in a 15,894-ft. program funded by Continental Cartech (…

Drilling at the Noche Buena project in northern Mexico is confirming the existence of a large, disseminated gold system for USMX (NASDAQ). Exposed gold has been identified as a result of surface and s…

An agreement with Metall Mining (TSE) provides Norman Keevil and his family with a strategy to prevent voting shares of Teck (TSE), of which he is president, from being acquired by any unfriendly shar…

Toronto-listed partners Aurizon Mines and Louvem Mines have almost doubled the diluted geological reserves at their Beaufor project near Val d’Or, Que. The figure has increased to 626,700 tonnes avera…

In a share swap, Utah-based Royal Minerals (NASDAQ) plans to acquire the outstanding shares of privately owned Montana Reserves. Existing shareholders of Royal Minerals will end up owning about 18% of…

Five months after operations resumed, the Oracle Ridge copper mine in southwestern Arizona is reported to be running smoothly. Seventy-per-cent owner Southern Copper (VSE) placed the underground mine …

Based on work to date, the Marudi Mountain property in southern Guyana has a drill-indicated and possible resource of about 9.6 million tons grading 0.07 oz. gold. Sutton Resources (VSE) says most of …

Permit applications will be submitted early this year for an open-pit, heap-leaching operation at the McDonald gold property in the northwestern corner of Montana. This decision is based on a positive…

Partners Athena Gold (VSE) and Pegasus Gold (TSE) have agreed to a 45-day extension to negotiate the future of their Talapoosa joint venture in northwestern Nevada. Pegasus can earn up to a 70% intere…

Today Kolmanskop is a dusty, windswept ghost town on Namibia’s southern coast, but 85 years ago it was the scene of one of Africa’s largest diamond rushes. In 1908, Zacharias Lewala, an ex-laborer fro…

Murray Pezim’s flagship, Prime Equities International (VSE), is proposing to spend at least $4 million this year to prove up a gold-rich polymetallic deposit in the Cook Inlet region of southern Alask…