BOOK REVIEW
Fipke account misses mark — Travelogue barely scratches surface of Canadian diamond huntFire Into Ice: Charles Fipke & the Great Diamond Hunt By Vernon Frolick…
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NEWS ROUNDUP — Freewest, Lenora to drill Bylund
Partners Freewest Resources Canada (FWR-T) and Greater Lenora Resources (GEN-T) are planning to drill their joint-ventured Bylund gold property in the Matawin gold belt near Thunder Bay, Ont.The partn…
Hecla Mining to assume ownership of La Camorra
Hecla Mining (HL-N) has signed a purchase agreement to acquire all the assets of Monarch Resources (MRE-T) for US$25 million.The deal would see Hecla assume ownership of Monarch’s La Camorra gold mine…
Taseko poised to close deal for Gibraltar copper mine
Hunter-Dickinson-led Taseko Mines (TKO-V) has entered into an agreement with Boliden (BOL-T) to acquire the Gibraltar copper mine, near Williams Lake in central British Columbia.Gibraltar is a large-s…
Manhattan wins approvals
It was a long time coming, but Manhattan Minerals (MAN-T) has finally received all necessary government approvals to begin exploration on the Tambo Grande mining concessions in northern Peru.The Peruv…
Vengold tables loss, responds to criticism
Saddled with a US$115-million debt load and a first-quarter net loss of US$16.7 million, Vengold (VEN-T) found itself facing some criticism from shareholders at its annual meeting in Vancouver.Several…
Francisco tests El Sauzal extensions
Diamond drilling at Francisco Gold’s (FGX-V) El Sauzal project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state has been focusing on expanding the 3.6-million-oz. contained resource by stepping out on possible extensions …
EDITORIAL & OPINION — ODDS ‘N’ SODS — Reverie of a wanderer
The following is the fifth in a series of articles in which the author, an exploration geologist based in Delta, B.C., recounts his experiences working in the jungles of Venezuela in the late 1980s an…
NEWS ROUNDUP — IG ponders expansion in Myanmar
Singapore-based Indochina Goldfields (ING-T) is investigating the possibility of expanding the S&K copper mine in Myanmar.The company says it would cost US$7.5 million to boost production by about 40%…
EDITORIAL & OPINION — FBI unlikely to fare better than Mounties — The unpunishable crime
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are famous for getting their man, but not this time. They didn’t get John Felderhof, the multi-award-winning senior geologist at the Busang property in the jungles of…
Index (May 24, 1999)
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR — U.S. activism being exported to Canada
The obstruction of the Crown Jewel project in Washington state, sadly, marks a culmination of the American environmental movement gone berserk, a movement that enjoys the support of the current presid…