After several years of delay due to litigation, Placer Dome (PDG-T) has resumed construction on the Las Cristinas gold mine in the Kilometre 88 region of southeastern Venezuela.The US$575-million proj…
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In an surprise move, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture have rejected a plan of operations for the Crown Jewel gold project in northeastern Washington state.In rejec…
Drilling at the Alto de Lipangue gold-copper project in central Chile is returning long intervals of significant mineralization for Medinah Energy (MDIN-O).The 5,000-ha prospect, situated in the coast…
Michel Camdessus, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is the latest to show his support for a plan to sell nearly 10 million oz. of gold to help debt-ridden poor countries.The …
In return for taking down a $2.2-million financing of Western Copper Holdings (WTC-T), joint-venture partner Teck (TEK-T) will have the option of purchasing an additional 5% interest in the El Salvado…
Drilling has enabled Energold Mining (EGD-V) to trace mineralization over a vertical interval of about 100 metres at its Longyear gold property in the Dominican Republic.The Vancouver-based junior rec…
The second round of a legal dispute between Kazakstan and Britain’s Trans World Group has begun in a London courtroom.The dispute began in November 1998 when Kazakstan’s Supreme Court ruled that in 19…
Cyanide is the main chemical used by the precious metal mining industry, and the industry could not exist without it. No other chemical available can separate gold or silver (in a process called leach…
Shareholders of Sutton Resources (STT-T) have overwhelmingly approved a takeover bid by Barrick Gold (ABX-T), offering 91% of their shares to the major.Under the terms of the Barrick offer, which had …
Aber Resources (ABZ-T) has filed a suit in the British Columbia Supreme Court to protect its 32.24% ownership interest in the Camsell Lake diamond project in the Northwest Territories.Aber’s action is…
Say what you like about this country’s stock exchanges, they have an instinct for timing. The reorganization and rationalization of Canadian capital markets actually managed to take some people by sur…
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