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The Venezuelan government has confirmed Crystallex International‘s (KRY-T) land occupation permit for the Las Cristinas gold properties in the Kilometre 88 gold district. The permit authorizes mining on the properties and is a p…

Vancouver — Drilling by Red Back Mining (RBI-V) has expanded the resource at the Chirano gold project in southwestern Ghana.

Downbeat economic news, high crude oil prices, and the expectation that the U.S. Federal Reserve would increase interest rates brought U.S. stock markets lower in the reporting period Aug. 4-9. The S&P 500 Index fell 34.47 points, or 3.1%, to 1,06…

Vancouver — Minefinders (MFL-T) has moved its Dolores gold-silver project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state a step closer to the final-feasibility stage.

Vancouver — WGI Heavy Minerals (WG-T) intends to acquire the world’s largest and highest-grade rutile deposit — the Sierra Rutile mine in Sierra Leone.

Drilling by Nuinsco Resources (NWI-T) has boosted the resource estimate at the Mel nickel deposit, 25 km north of Thompson, Man.

Seabridge Gold (SEA-V) has improved the gold resource at its Fat deposit, on the Courageous Lake property, 240 km northeast of Yellowknife, N.W.T.

Greenshield Resources (GRE-V) has intersected significant gold at the “A” zone in Newton Twp., 100 km southwest of Timmins, Ont.