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Northgate extends Young-Davidson

Four holes drilled this summer by Northgate Minerals (NGX-T, NXG-X) have confirmed that two gold-mineralized zones at the Young-Davidson mine west of Matachewan, Ont., continue to depth, and permits a…



Campbell offering held up

A rights offering by Campbell Resources (CCH-T, CBLRF-O) to assist the restructuring of the financially troubled company is ready, its final prospectus having been approved by securities regulators. B…


Buffalo Gold cuts more Mount Kare high-grade

Vancouver — Buffalo Gold’s (BUF.U-V, BYBUF-O) Mount Kare project in Papua New Guinea continues to deliver wide, high-grade gold intercepts in the latest drilling on the North-Western Roscoelite zone …


St Andrew buys Holloway assets from Newmont

St Andrew Goldfields (SAS-T, SASXF-O) has agreed to buy subsidiary Holloway Mining from Newmont Mining (NMC-T, NEM-N), moving the Holloway and Holt-McDermott mines and a large land package into the St…




James Whyte

Zinc recycling in the North (October 30, 2006)

Doubtless helped by the price of zinc, two former Arctic zinc producers, both operated by Cominco, are getting second looks by junior explorers bent on showing that resources left behind when the mine…


Full Metal cuts silver in Alaska

Vancouver — Full Metal Minerals’ (FMM-V, FLMTF-O) initial drill hole on the LWM prospect at its 40 Mile property in eastern Alaska has intersected a near-surface interval of silver-rich massive sulph…


ABER DIAMONDThis past winter's shortened ice road season in the Arctic delayed the transport of large items, and forced De Beers to fly others in at Gahcho Kue at a higher cost. Here a 24-wheeler hauls a 200-tonne payload compartment of a much larger truck across a winter road to the Diavik diamond mine, 300 km northeast of Yellowknife, N.W.T. Diavik Diamond Mines is owned 40% by Aber Diamond Mines, with the remainder held by Rio Tinto.

Gahcho Ku on path to production in 2012

With the Snap Lake underground mine in the Northwest Territories and the Victor open-pit operation in northern Ontario already under construction, De Beers, the world’s leading diamond player, is look…


VIVIAN DANIELSONWestern Keltic Mines' vice-president of exploration, Peter Holbek (centre, yellow), explains the geology of the Kutcho Creek massive sulphide project during a site visit to Dease Lake, northern B.C.

More reward than risk at Kutcho Creek

Dease Lake, B.C. — The Kutcho Creek volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project located 100 km east of this Northern community made it to prefeasibility in the mid-1980s, only to be put on the back b…


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