Having taken it on the chin in the recent recession, metals producers — and their customers — are bouncing back in championship style. By shedding non-core assets and reducing costs by remarkable pe…
Preparing La Cienega mine in the northwest of Durango state for underground production this year is the Penoles group. The project’s deposits sit in a 4-km-long system of quartz veins and host gold-si…
Outgoing Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and former Italian trade minister Renato Ruggiero are the favorites to head the new World Trade Organization (WTO), diplomats said recently in Gene…
Halloween was still weeks away, but that did not prevent the ghost of Windy Craggy from stalking the District 6 annual general meeting of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CI…
Acheron Resources (ACZ: VSE) has changed its name to Abaddon Resources (ABA: VSE) on a 1-new-for-9-old-sh basis.
Royalty-holder Franco-Nevada Mining (TSE) has paid US$2.25 million to South Africa-based Rustenburg Platinum for a 5% net profits interest royalty in that country’s Pandora platinum property. The depo…
Western markets appear to have slipped into the fall-winter doldrums despite the considerable amount of exploration activity taking place in the Southern Hemisphere. Gold is not helping matters, altho…
A report in our Oct. 17 issue incorrectly stated that Atlas (NYSE) will combine Granges (TSE), Hycroft Resources & Development (TSE) and Dakota Mining (TSE) into one company. Atlas does plan to initia…
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the mine. Or drive a ventilation shaft. Which is exactly what Coleman miners did in near-record time, without incident and under difficult conditions. “It was ki…
Exploration and infill drilling are continuing at the Mulatos project in Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains. Placer Dome (TSE) acquired the property from Minera Real de Angeles in May, 1993, for US$5 mil…
A preliminary evaluation of the Hammerdown gold deposit in Newfoundland recommends underground trackless mining with shrinkage stoping. The deposit, which forms part of the Rendell-Jackman property, i…
A study on titanium by AME Mineral Economics of Australia indicates that chlorinatable slag will be the glamor TiO2 feedstock for the remainder of the decade. Projected balances show that the existing…
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