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Welsh gold: The ‘rarest gold in the world’

If you’re ever looking for expensive gold jewellery – not just any old gold jewellery, mind you, but with gold of such fine quality and such rarity as befits a royal family – you might want to consider having it made of Welsh gold.


Richfield Ventures co-founder Dirk Tempelman-Kluit.

AME BC unveils its honour roll for 2011

The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) has announced the 2011 recipients of its annual awards. The AME BC recognizes individuals or teams for significant contributions to the mineral exploration industry in B.C.,…


Lundin completes Semblana resource

Lundin Mining (LUN-T) discovered the Semblana copper deposit adjacent to its Neves-Corvo mine in Southern Portugal in September last year, and describes it on its website as the “first new massive-sulphide deposit discovery at Neves-Corvo in…


Adriana joins the Wuhan clan

Adriana Resources’ (ADI-V) shares are back up after dropping 15% on Dec. 19 as the company reported that it’s partnering with Wisco International Resources to develop the Lac Otelnuk and December Lake iron ore properties in Nunavik, Que….


Artisanal miners in the Vindaloo zone at Avion Gold's Hounde gold project in Burkina Faso. Photo by Avion Gold

Avion triples Hounde resource to 1.6M oz. gold

In less than two years, Avion Gold (AVR-T) has turned a group of early stage mineral concessions in Burkina Faso into a 1.6-million-oz. gold project, with management convinced of its potential for growth. 


Yukon-Nevada adds ounces at Jerritt

Vancouver – Yukon-Nevada Gold (YNG-T) has added roughly 429,000 oz. gold to the resource at its Jerritt Canyon project in Nevada with a resource update.


Smash Minerals and Prosperity Goldfields to merge

When Adrian Fleming, co-founder of the wildly successful Underworld Resources, listened to a presentation at his Vancouver office in November last year from Prosperity Goldfields’ (PPG-V) chief geologist Quinton Hennigh about a prospect in…


Trevali opens the Halfmile mine

Trevali Mining (tv-t) has kicked off the New Year by transitioning from a development-stage company to a producer by starting up the Halfmile polymetallic massive sulphide project near Bathurst, N.B.  


Brixton cuts mega-intercept in BC

Vancouver – Brixton Metals (BBB-V) has pulled a whopper of an intercept from the Thorn project in northwest British Columbia, hitting 95 metres grading 904 grams per tonne silver equivalent from near surface.


Prophecy Platinum starts winter drill program at Wellgreen

Burwash Landing, Yukon – Fifteen km off the paved Alaska Highway in southwestern Yukon, the Wellgreen nickel-copper-PGM project sits largely as it has since 1973, when Hudson-Yukon Mining abandoned underground mining there after one year of…


Rare Element Resources adds to resource

In an updated resource estimate that includes less than half of the new assay results from holes drilled in 2011, Rare Element Resources (RES-T, REE-X) has boosted by 38% the measured and indicated resources of its Bear Lodge rare earths…


Baja Mining updates progress at Boleo

Baja Mining (BAJ-T, BAJFF-O) has tested the first of three 2.5 megawatt power generators at its 70%-owned Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc-manganese project and says all three will be online in early January.


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