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A work program operated by Minnova (TSE) is now under way on Gold Canyon Resources’ (VSE) Blue Dog gold project in Washington Cty., Idaho. Minnova recently signed a formal agreement and can earn up to…

Surface work, including linecutting and trenching has been completed at the Veneuil Twp. gold property in northwestern Quebec, Beauchamps Exploration (VSE) reports. The company says a new zone 1.5 mil…

Participants at a recent seminar hosted by the Centre for Resource Studies in Toronto were told the Canadian mining industry must become an agenda-setter rather than an agenda item if it wants to main…

Lyndex Exploration (CDN), which has raised $200,000 via a private placement of 1,000,000 treasury shares on a flow-through basis, is embarking on an exploration program in Ontario’s Timmins Kidd Creek…

Drilling by Central Crude (TSE) continues at the Moss Lake gold prospect in northwestern Ontario, Tandem Resources (ME) and Storimin Exploration (ASE) report. Four holes have been completed, with good…

Recent drilling by Cominco Resources International (TSE) intersected exceptional thicknesses of high-grade copper mineralization within the previously defined limits of the Cerattepe copper deposit in…

High-grade copper-bearing float has been uncovered by Freewest Resources (TSE) in the Bathurst mining camp of northern New Brunswick. The company says several sub-angular boulders of chloritic mudston…

A second sale of high-grade ore to Noranda (TSE) was recently announced by Fairfield Minerals (TSE). The 1,500-ton shipment is estimated to contain a minimum of 6,500 oz. gold. The second sale is expe…

Drilling, engineering and environmental studies are continuing at the Haile gold property near Kershaw, S.C., where three rigs are currently operating. The property is under the control of Amax Gold (…

Toronto-based Morgain Minerals (VSE) has been granted an option to acquire a 100% interest in the Cuatro Hermanos property, a copper-molybdenum prospect southeast of Hermosillo in Sonora, Mexico. Unde…

Despite some startup delays, St. George Metals (VSE) recently began heap-leaching operations at its Dean underground gold mine in Nevada’s Battle Mountain district. The company is operating under a pi…

Stratmin (ME) reports that a university in Belgium has extracted and concentrated a mixture of muscovite-phlogopite mica from a sample taken from tailings at Stramin’s Lac-des-Iles graphite property n…