True North Gems Inc

Weakening junior market volume, coupled with a slight pull back in gold toward the session’s end, led to further softening of the TSX Venture Exchange Index. The index fell more than 32 points to close at 1527.14 during the trading period July 14-…

True North Gems (TGX-V) has discovered a new emerald zone on its Regal Ridge property in the Finlayson Lake district of the Yukon.

While discoveries of emerald and beryl in the Finlayson Lake area have enjoyed the highest profile, the territory’s last producer was the Brewery Creek gold mine, and gold is still a mainstay of miner…

Along with salt and sharp-edged weapons-grade obsidian and chalcedony (flint), coloured gemstones probably have been mined longer than any other mineral commodities known to man. However, it is only o…

(The first instalment of this article appeared in our issue of June 2-8, 2003.)Mention “the big three,” and many people will immediately think: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. Or perhaps the younger …

Teck Cominco — Chris Thompson appointed to board of directors.Trivalence — Omair Choudhry appointed CFO; Hamish Malkin resigned as CFO.True North Gems — Len De Melt appointed project m…

Melkior — Florent Bell and Francois Desrosiers appointed to board of directors.Pacific Minerals — Rui Feng resigned as director.Pasminco — Mark Rayner, Geoff Allen and Andrew Guy resig…

America Mineral Fields — Gregg Sedun resigned from board of directors and as secretary.Amerigo — Klaus Zeitler appointed president; Seven Dean appointed chairman; Roger Moss appointed VP exploration…

Vancouver — In the autumn of 1998, field geologist Bill Wengzynowski sparked a flurry of exploration activity by discovering an occurrence of emeralds on Expatriate Resources’ (EXR-V) Goal Net base m…