Free-trade agreements are catching on across Latin America. Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela have been negotiating a trading zone which, once in place, could attract new members such as Peru, Bolivia an…
Long known as one of the world’s leading emerald producers, Colombia is now emerging as a location for renewed gold exploration. This is due to two factors: one is that little of the country has been …
The British Columbia government has awarded a mine development certificate to Prime Resources Group (TSE) for its Eskay Creek gold project 80 air-km north of Stewart. The project was given a full tech…
An increase in exploration in South Australia has prompted that state’s government to commit funds for a further work program. About A$1 million of the A$5-million program will finance airborne geophy…
Partners Onshore Resources and Minorco are continuing their search for base metals on a 650-sq.-km property in central Ireland. The property is on a major structural trend which extends southwestwards…
The poor price of copper has prompted Crew Natural Resources (VSE) to drop its interest in the Red Dog copper-gold project on northern Vancouver Island. The decison was also influenced by BHP Minerals…
An arbitrator has ruled that Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE) is not required to make the first two US$1-million penalty payments to Crown Resources (TSE) under the companies’ Crown Jewel joint-venture agr…
I am one of a group of three independent prospectors who hold potential base metal claims in northwestern Grenfell Twp., near Kirkland Lake, Ont. These claims were the subject of considerable explorat…
The son of a prospector and a native of Cobalt, Ont., Sherman Tough has died. He was 82. His entry into the world of mining came at a young age when he accompanied his father, George, and his uncles i…
The Toronto Stock Exchange 300 composite index dropped 94.36 points March 29 to 4,393.61, its largest single-day loss since Feb. 4. The selloff was triggered by a two-thirds-of-a-percentage-point jump…
As part of an ongoing feasibility study of its Brewery Creek property, Loki Gold (VSE) has released a new estimate of the Yukon project’s geological resource. Based on a cutoff grade of 0.3 grams gold…
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US61.25-62.75 cents per lb. (Mar. 17, 1994). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US76-80 cents per lb. (June 10, 1993). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.35-2.65 per lb. (Sept. 23, 19…
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