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Fredonia looks good to Eaglecrest
Eaglecrest Explorations (eel-v) turned in some interesting results from a first-pass sampling program at its Fredonia gold project in Colombia. The highlight assay returned 8.25 grams gold per tonne and 47.5 grams silver per tonne and came from…
Geo Minerals, Inmet drill Arizona porphyry copper targets
Joint-venture partners Geo Minerals (gm-t) and Inmet Mining (imn-t) have resumed drilling on a copper porphyry target at the Middle Mountain property in south-central Arizona.At least two reverse circulation (RC) holes are planned to test for…
Stornoway hustles for Renard
In December Stornoway Diamond (swy-t) struck a deal with provincially owned Soquem to buy the remaining half of the Renard diamond project in Quebec.Under the proposed agreement, Diaquem, a wholly owned subsidiary of Soquem, will receive…
Rainy River secures $75M financing
On the back of its flagship 5-million-oz. Rainy River gold project in northwestern Ontario, Rainy River Resources (rr-v) has closed a $75-million bought-deal financing just as gold is starting to lose a little of its lustre.The private…
Eastern Platinum rakes in $348M
With platinum prices expected to climb further in 2011, Canada’s biggest platinum producer had little trouble raising $348 million to help pay for the first phase of its Eastern Limb development plan in South Africa. In an equity…
Avion grows in West Africa
Avion Gold (avr-t, avgcf-o) continues to bulk up on West African gold assets as it has closed a deal to acquire the Kofi property in Mali from Axmin (axm-v). In total Avion will pay Axmin $500,000 in cash and issue 4.5 million of its shares for…
Western Copper plans to get more out of Casino
Western Copper (wrn-t) says its Casino gold-copper project in the Yukon can process more ore than previously believed. The company has been in the midst of updating its prefeasibility study from 2008 ever since it released a significantly…
China cuts export quotas for rare earths
Shares of rare earth element companies reached new heights when markets reopened after the Christmas holidays on Dec. 29, 2010, following news that China had cut export quotas for the strategic metals by 35% year-on-year.The Ministry of…
Slam cashes up to fund NB exploration
Slam Exploration (sxl-v) has topped up its treasury with private placement financings as it prepares to resume exploration drilling early in the New Year on the Reserve Creek gold project in northern Ontario and the Silverjack base-metal…