Argentina Gold busy at Veladero
Junior Argentina Gold (ARP-V) has released further drill results from its 60%-owned Veladero project, 400 km north of San Juan in western Argentina, near the Chilean border.The Vancouver-based company…
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EXPLORATION 1998 — Battle over a Barren — Regal Goldfields to take dispute over protected site to court
Arguing that the government of Nova Scotia did not have the authority to revoke its right to access and explore a tract of ground in western Cape Breton, Regal Goldfields (REGL-C) has applied to the p…
EXPLORATION 1998 — Rubicon seeks growth through exploration — Junior focuses mine-finding efforts on Canadian projects, including nickel prospect in High Arctic
Hoping to capitalize on its home-field advantage, newly listed Rubicon Minerals (RMX-V) is preparing to explore gold and base metal projects in some of Canada’s foremost mining camps.Launched late las…
EXPLORATION 1998 — Mindoro takes aim at gold-copper targets in Myanmar — Junior advances Kyaukkyi and Thida exploration properties
Historically, mineral production in Myanmar (formerly Burma) derived from small-scale gold and gemstone operations, both primary and alluvial. But several Canadian companies are now scanning the count…
EXPLORATION 1998 — Mineral exploration on rise in Sweden
For Swedish mining and exploration, 1997 will be remembered as a boom year.Preliminary figures from the Swedish Geological Survey show that exploration in the Scandinavian country reached record heigh…
Mar-West to drill Cerro Blanco
Mar-West Resources (MSR-V) is drawing favorable comparisons between two of its Latin American gold properties: the San Martin deposit in central Honduras and the Cerro Blanco prospect in southeastern …
EXPLORATION 1998 — Drilling starts at Timmins West
A drill program by Prospectors Alliance (PALL-C) is testing several deep geophysical targets at the Timmins West gold property in northeastern Ontario.Most of these targets lie within a regional break…
EXPLORATION 1998 — Barrick to drill Eastmain project
A 4,000-metre drill program by Barrick Gold (ABX-T) will further test the Lac Elmer gold project in Quebec’s Eastmain River greenstone belt.The major can earn a 50% interest in the project from Eastma…
EXPLORATION 1998 – NEWS ROUNDUP — Expatriate adds to Yukon holdings
Expatriate Resources (EXR-V) has added to its extensive mineral holdings in the Yukon Territory by negotiating an agreement to acquire a 60% interest in seven groups of mineral claims in either the Wa…
EXPLORATION 1998 — Mexico’s Zacatecas state teeming with Canadian juniors
With massive-sulphide intervals as thick as 263 metres, the San Nicolas polymetallic massive sulphide discovery in Mexico’s Zacatecas state is significant in its own right, but it is the likelihood of…
EXPLORATION 1998 — Juniors explore in Solomon Islands
Junior companies are continuing to explore projects in the Solomon Islands, an archipelago in the South Pacific in which gold and copper-gold porphyry systems appear to be the main exploration targets…
EXPLORATION 1998 — Rift, Reunion hit widespread gold in Zimbabwe
With results in hand from the first 20 holes of an 80-hole drill program, Rift Resources (RIF-V) is reporting the discovery of widespread gold mineralization at the Silobela project in Zimbabwe.The To…