Atac’s drilling scores 10 out of 11
Vancouver – The first drill result out of Atac Resources’ (ATC-V) Rau gold project in the central Yukon impressed i…
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San Gold on cusp of resource update (August 06, 2008)
Vancouver – Exploration drilling in and around San Gold’s (SGR-V) operating Rice Lake mine, 230 km northeast of Win…
Xstrata signals faith in platinum
Xstrata (XSRAF-O, XTA-L) has signaled its faith in the platinum market by making a $10 billion pitch for London-bas…
Yankee Hat forms tungsten JV with Japanese group (August 06, 2008)
Restrictions on tungsten exports from China have caused resource-poor Japan to look to the Yukon and Northwest Terr…
Goldsource still in coal, share price slides
Vancouver Goldsource Mines (GXS-V) is back into thick coal intercepts at its Border property near Hudson Bay, Sas…
Carpathian can’t get lift from wide intersects
The latest drill results from Romania, while strong, weren’t enough to lift Carpathian Gold (CPN-T) out of the summ…
Probe shares down on McFauld’s west results
Probe Mines (PRB-V) shares plunged 47% today after the company reported that drill results from its McFauld’s West …
NEW HORIZONS (August 04, 2008)
The Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society (KEGS) has awarded 21 scholarships worth a total of $15,000 to undergraduate and graduate students in geophysics.
TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE JULY 22-28
Not much changed on the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index during the July 22-28 trading session; the index shed 101 points to close at 2,186.5, average trading volumes puttered along at 62 million t…
LME WAREHOUSE LEVELS (August 04, 2008)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, July 29, 2008 (change from July 22 in brackets):
Bears kill 2 geologists in Russia’s Far East
Geologists at a mine in northern Russia have refused to leave their compound after two of their colleagues, who worked on a drill site, were found fatally mauled by bears near the project.
PRODUCER AND DEALER PRICES (August 04, 2008)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$6,300.00/t.