Reed Lake still showing promise for VMS Ventures
Vancouver – Though the initial excitement over VMS Ventures’ (VMS-V) Reed Lake discovery in Manitoba has died down,…
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From Los Alamos to the rock face (May 06, 2008)
A new diamond technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has promising applications i…
Oromin rewarded for rapid pace at Sabodala
Vancouver – It’s a golden cycle for Oromin Explorations (OLE-V): strong drill results prompt the company to add mor…
Deep high-grade at Guanajuato
Vancouver – A few weeks before a ceremony to celebrate the re-opening of the Guanajuato mine in central Mexico Grea…
High-grade gold intercepts at Rubicon’s Phoenix project
The Phoenix gold project’s new F2 zone in Ontario’s Red Lake District is yielding high-grade gold intercepts for Ru…
U. S. MARKETS (May 05, 2008)
Stock markets in the U. S. were up during the April 22 -April 28 trading session, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing 47 points, or 0.4%, to 12872; the Standard & Poor’s 500 index risin…
TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE (May 05, 2008)
The TSX Composite Index finished the Apr. 22-28 period down 235.31 points at 14,085.85, with the key culprit being seen as investors taking profits from the recent big gains in stocks within the agric…
TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE (May 05, 2008)
VANCOUVER — The S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index lost ground over the April 22-28 trading session, closing down 76.65 points at 2483.17. Daily trading volumes were up slightly from the third week …
Will this goose lay a copper-nickel-cobalt egg? (May 05, 2008)
SITE VISIT NEMISCAU, QUE.–Golden Goose Resources (GGR-V, GGOSF-O) has made a copper-nickel-cobalt and platinum group elements (PGE) discovery here in the James Bay region of northern Quebec, at its Lac…
Chinese, Griffin battle over Yukon Zinc
VANCOUVER — Yukon Zinc (YZC-V) has meticulously advanced the silver-rich polymetallic Wolverine project in the Yukon for most of a decade without so much as a whiff of a takeover. Now, with the fully…
Canadian Royalties signs IBA with Nunavik Inuit
Canadian Royalties (CZZ-T, CRYAF-O) is one step closer to development at its Nunavik Nickel project in Northern Quebec, now that it’s signed an impact and benefits agreement with three communities and…
Junior miners: get ’em while they’re hot
Despite a broadly declining market, the week ended April 26, the 17th trading week of 2008, proved to be a mergers-and-acquisitions extravaganza in the junior mining sector.