Anooraq busy on the Bushveld
Mokopane, South Africa — Hunter-Dickinson-led Anooraq Resources (ARQ-V) has tabled an inferred resource totalling some 4.2 million oz. platinum and palladium (PGMs) plus gold for the Drenthe farm on …
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Metallic chases Nevada high grade
Determined to achieve mid-tier producer status in a few years, Reno-based Metallic Ventures (MVG-T) is exploring three advanced-stage gold projects in Nevada.Chief among these is the historic Esmerald…
Goldcorp, Placer Dome spark Red Lake revival
Vancouver — The Red Lake area of northwestern Ontario has had its share of gold exploration booms over the past 75 years. Today, thanks to the discovery of additional reserves along the 24-million-oz…
Control of Indonesia’s KPC mine in dispute
Jakarta, Indonesia — PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC), a massive open-pit mine in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, is embroiled in a power struggle with local authorities. The struggle has occurred because KPC …
Healthy prices, discoveries spur nickel exploration
After losing ground to their trendy laterite cousins a few years ago, nickel sulphide deposits — hosts of the giant Sudbury, Voisey’s Bay and Norilsk orebodies — are back in fashion.Nickel sulphide …
Northair picks up Mexican property
Beating the bushes for projects in Durango state, Mexico, International Northair Mines (INM-V) has tied up six exploration concessions covering 10 sq. km and seven gold-silver showings.The new land pa…
Peeking under the covers
Geologists Down Under devise ways to penetrate overburdenAustralia is peeling back the layer of overburden that obscures most of the continent to find ore deposits previously hidden to exploration geo…
Canadian Royalties hits new zone (March 10, 2003)
Vancouver — The economic promise of the Expo-Ungava nickel-copper-platinum-palladium property got a shot in the arm following operator Canadian Royalties’ (CZZ-V) discovery of yet another high-grade …
Hansa takes over Rhonda claims
Thoroughly occupied by the Northwest Territories diamond hunt, Calgary-based Rhonda Corporation (RDM-V) has spun off its holdings in the Courageous Lake gold belt, north of Yellowknife, to affiliate H…
Exploration heats up in SW New Brunswick
Despite a slump in base metal exploration, 2002 proved to be a banner year for precious metals in New Brunswick. It was gold’s turn to shine as exploration efforts turned up widespread occurrences in …
Opawica finds high-grade in Brazil
Toronto-based Opawica Explorations (OPW-T) has received positive results from the first phase of due diligence at the Bom Jardim gold property in the Tapajos district of Para state in north-central Br…
Exploration work upgrades Northgate’s Kemess North
Vancouver — In 2002, Northgate Exploration (NGX-T) spent US$3.5 million drilling 42 holes at the Kemess North deposit in the Toodoggone River area of north-central British Columbia. In the process, t…