Production shortfalls, exploration success for Queenstake
Elko, Nev. — During the year and a half following
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Better times as UME bites a fiscal bullet
Calgary-based
Newmont to spend $6m in search of Holloway mill feed
The last thing a miner wants during a gold boom is a starving mill. Yet that’s exactly what
Messina cuts zinc
In step-out drilling on its Boomerang base metal discovery in Newfoundland,
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Cullinan turns 100
In November 2003, De Beers announced that its flagship Premier mine in South Africa would be renamed the Cullinan diamond mine in celebration of the mine’s centenary. The mine once yielded the Cullina…
Mexgold cuts bonanza grades
Vancouver — New exploration drifts on the Villalpando-Poniente vein have yielded bonanza gold and silver grades from channel sampling some 100 metres from surface on
Diamond fever fuels staking rush in Canada’s Far North
Messina stirs up Buchans camp
It takes just one hot hole to put a company in play. In early December 2004, while drilling the Boomerang prospect, south of the Buchans camp in central Newfoundland,
Avocet to sell Primary Metals block
First Quantum speeds up Kansanshi production
The Kansanshi copper mine in northwestern Zambia will go into production at a higher rate, under a plan unveiled by operator
Star diamonds worth US$110 per ct
Saskatchewan is a province long synonymous with uranium and potash. It may not be too long before diamonds are thrown into the mix….