Consmin moves to take Titan private
Just as in Canada, the nickel industry in Australia is seeing the emergence of small and middle-tier producers …
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Great Panther commissioning Guanajuato plant (March 28, 2006)
Vancouver – Great Panther Resources (GPR-V, GPRLF-O) has started to commission the processing plant at its Guanajua…
Puma posts positive PGE results from East Pansky
Vancouver Recent drilling by Consolidated Puma Minerals (CPW-V) has returned high-grade results for platinum grou…
Twin plans diamond spinoff
Twin Mining (TWG-T) has retained M Partners to arrange financing for a new diamond exploration vehicle designed to …
Partners flash green light for San Jose
VANCOUVER – Partners Minera Andes (MAI-V, MNEAF-O) and Mauricio Hochschild have formally approved plans to place t…
First Quantum finds copper at Kibamba (March 27, 2006)
A reverse-circulation drilling program by First Quantum Minerals (FM-T, FQM-L) has intersected copper mineralizatio…
Gold Fields to pour US$9.3M into Essakane
South African mining house Gold Fields (GFI-N, GOF-L, GOGOF-J) has budgeted US$9.3 million for exploration and pre-…
Kodiak hit by first hole at Caribou Lake
VANCOUVER The first of three exploratory holes drilled by Kodiak Exploration (KXL-V) at the Caribou Lake property…
Crystallex soars on Venezuelan approval
Shares in Crystallex International (KRY-T, KRY-X) jumped as much as $1.44, or 39%, to $5.10 in early trading on Mar…
First Quantum sweetens Adastra bid (March 27, 2006)
It took more than two months of steadfast protests of opportunism and financial inadequacy by Adastra Minerals (AAA-T, AAA-L), but First Quantum Minerals (FM-T, FQVLF-O, FQM-L) has finally added a cas…
Protests against Freeport’s Grasberg mine turn deadly (March 27, 2006)
Vancouver — The latest in a continuing series of protests against Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s (FCX-N) Grasberg gold-copper mine, in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua, has escalated in…
Resource boost at Galeno
Vancouver — A new resource estimate has been delivered to Northern Peru Copper (NOC-T, NPUCF-O), increasing the size of its Galeno copper-gold-molybdenum deposit, about 600 km north of Lima, Peru….