Herald Res. drills Indonesian property
Australian-listed Herald Resources is resuming drilling at the Dairi zinc-lead project in North Sumatra, Indonesia.The program will be attempt to expand the Anjing Hitam zone, which hosts an independe…
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Sudbury Contact options Moosehead
A recent agreement with Altius Minerals (ALS-V) sets the stage for Sudbury Contact Mines (SUD-T) to earn up to a 60% interest in the Moosehead gold property in central Newfoundland.Sudbury Contact can…
Atna targets polymetallic mine in Arizona
A 4-hole, 2,000-ft. program of diamond drilling will test the downdip extension of the underground Lone Pine mine, a past producer south of Prescott, Ariz.Atna Resources (ATN-T) says there is no recor…
‘Quebec Inc.’ backs Niobec purchase
A inflow of cash from Quebec’s biggest institutions has allowed Quebec City-based Mazarin (MAZ-T) to close the $48-million acquisition of Teck’s (TEK-T) half-interest in the Niobec niobium mine in the…
No resource yet at Sepola
Resource Service Group is rejecting widely publicized claims that it had quantified a significant resource at the Sepola gold project in Mali for owner Hyundai.Rick Yates, director of the Australian-b…
Franco trades mine for 20% of Normandy
A market that was plainly awaiting a merger announcement may have been nonplussed, but Franco-Nevada Mining (FN-T) has agreed to exchange the Ken Snyder mine, the Midas property and Australian assets …
BHP aims to boost ownership of Ekati mine
Ending months of speculation, Australia’s BHP (BHP-N) has emerged as the only bidder for Dia Met Minerals (DMM-T) and its 29% stake in the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories.BHP has offer…
Implats gains 30% of Zimplats, Ngezi mine project
Were it not for the ominous shadow of Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, Australian-listed Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats) might have already developed its Ngezi open-pit mine and various other h…
Ashton keen on testing K252 pipe in Alberta
Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) has extracted a second mini-bulk drill sample, weighing 20 tonnes, from the K252 kimberlite on the Buffalo Hills joint-venture property in north-central Alberta.The wor…
Ivanhoe homes in on discovery
Ongoing exploration at a new gold discovery in South Korea has returned more encouraging results for Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T).Ten trenches dug across one of the veins yielded 1.2-102.1 grams gold and 0.6…
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