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STOCK MARKETS — TSE edges higher after 2-week run
The Toronto Stock Exchange closed a little higher over the period Aug.21-27, following a 2-day slide that took away some of the gains made in an 8-day upward run.The TSE 300 composite index was 22.99 …
DIAMOND NEWS ROUNDUP — Trade Winds recovers kimberlite
Drilling on the Drybones Bay kimberlite in the Northwest Territories has recovered more than 1 tonne of sample from a single drill hole, Trade Winds Resources (TDN-V) reports.Collared on the eastern s…
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THE GLOBAL SEARCH FOR GOLD SPECIAL — Arian Resources chases pot of gold in former U.S.S.R.
While many of the large, undeveloped gold deposits in the former Soviet Union will have to dig deep into the pockets of a major in order to move forward, several junior companies are succeeding in acq…
ODDS’N’SODS — Flight of the Polish geologist
One summer’s morning in 1963, the chief geologist at Ontario’s Madsen Red Lake gold mine informed me that I was to locate the drill casing from a hole drilled 20 years previous and that the spot in qu…
THE GLOBAL SEARCH FOR GOLD SPECIAL — Madagan reports production
The Madagan region of Russia sent more than 1.5 tonnes of gold to refineries in the first half of 1996, reports Interfax News Agency. The region is the second-largest producer of the yellow metal in t…
THE GLOBAL SEARCH FOR GOLD SPECIAL — Verdstone, Stirrup drills Victorine
A program of reverse-circulation drilling is under way at the Victorine gold mine property, a past producer 18 miles southeast of Austin, Nev.Joint-venture partners Stirrup Creek Gold (SGU-V) and Verd…
THE GLOBAL SEARCH FOR GOLD SPECIAL — Kazakhs to boost gold production
Kazakhstan produced about 14.9 tonnes of gold last year and government officials are pushing to boost production to 50 tonnes by the year 2,000.Interfax News Agency reports that the program to boost p…
THE GLOBAL SEARCH FOR GOLD SPECIAL — Laverton wants to pour first gold by Christmas
By Christmas of this year, Laverton Gold (LAV-V) expects to pour its first gold bar from the Rawas project on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.Construction is well under way, with plant commissioning …
Radioactive waste to be main focus of international Winnipeg conference
An international conference on the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste will be held at the Westin Hotel in Winnipeg, Man., from Sept. 16 to 19.Co-sponsored by the Canadian Nuclear Society an…
THE GLOBAL SEARCH FOR GOLD SPECIAL — Rhodes drills in Slovakia
Australian-based Rhodes Mining (RHO-V) is one of several juniors from Down Under to help fund foreign exploration ventures by listing on the Vancouver Stock Exchange.The company is currently drilling …