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Basil Pantages appointed director.

C. Maddin appointed director.

Houston, Tex.-based Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE) has offered two million shares of convertible preferred stock at US$50 per share to raise US$100 million. The preferred stock will pay an annual dividen…

Earlier this year, juniors without a diamond property or Venezuelan gold concession in their portfolio had as good a shot at stirring market enthusiasm as a company flogging used dishrags. But while f…

The recent drop in copper prices and uncertainty over future prices have prompted Princeton Mining (TSE) to close the Similco open-pit copper mine near Princeton, B.C. The shutdown will take effect Se…

Toronto listed American Barrick has demonstrated a renewed commitment to its Holt-McDermott mine, 50 km north of here, by announcing an $8.7-million shaft-deepening project. The bullish news also send…

Obtaining a permit to build and operate a mine in California was relatively easy for Siskon Gold (NASDAQ). The junior recently obtained approval to construct its San Juan gold mine, only a year after …

Wayne Smith appointed director.

A key figure in the development of geophysical systems, Vaino Ronka, has died. A native of Finland, Ronka studied communications engineering and later geophysics at a university in Helsinki. After gra…

Richard Mazur appointed director.

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David Graham and Ben Schmidt appointed directors.