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News August 30, 2004

Virginia upbeat at Eleanore

Virginia Gold Mines (VIA-T) reports impressive gold assays over minable widths from channel samples at the Eleanore project, 320 km north of Matagami, Que.

News August 30, 2004

Abacus fully vested in Afton project (August 30, 2004)

Vancouver — Ahead of schedule, Abacus Mining & Exploration (AME-V) has fulfilled the terms to earn its acquisition of the Afton project from Teck Cominco (TEK-T). The 70-sq.-km copper-gold project is west of…

News August 30, 2004

NovaGold delivers Galore Creek values

Vancouver — NovaGold (NG-T) has tabled a positive scoping study of its Galore Creek copper-gold-silver project in northwestern British Columbia, while confirming additional mineralization through drilling.

News August 30, 2004

Leak causes CEZinc shutdown

Noranda (NRD-T) says a chemical leak that shut down a plant at a Quebec zinc refinery, 30 km west of Montreal, did not harm local residents or affect production.

Vaaldiam personnel sampling the Tumeleiro 3 kimberlite pipe at Pimenta Bueno. A 163-kg sample Rio Tinto collected from the pipe in the mid-1990s graded 17.84 carats per tonne.

News August 30, 2004

Vaaldiam hunts for Brazilian diamonds

A rejuvenated Vaaldiam Resources (VAA-V) has been busy these past eight months carrying out grassroots exploration on its Pimenta Bueno diamond property in Brazil.

News August 30, 2004

Taking action Down Under

Since 1996, a decline in spending on minerals exploration spending in Australia, coupled with significant structural changes to the industry, has reduced access to capital, expertise and other resources. As a result, the country has failed to resp…

News August 30, 2004

Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (August 30, 2004)

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News August 30, 2004

Market rally pulls up miners

U.S. stock markets made a modest gain during the report period Aug. 12-24, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 1.6% to 10,098.63 points and the S&P 500 index up 1.9% at 1,096.19.

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