People (April 16, 2007)
Idaho General Mines — Mark Lettes appointed director; Llee Chapman resigned as director.
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Suppliers News (April 16, 2007)
Tyhee gets own lab
Back Forty drilling cuts gold too (April 16, 2007)
Aquila Resources (AQA-V, AQARF-O) has completed two new holes on the Back Forty base metal deposit in Menominee Cty., Mich., and both have intersected gold mineralization as well as copper and zinc.
GBS Gold loads up treasury with $46M bought-deal
Vancouver — After closing a $46-million bought-deal financing, GBS Gold International (GBS-T, GBSFF-O) has a well-padded treasury ready for its acquisition and project development plans.
Duluth hits big in stepout hole (April 16, 2007)
While infill holes confirm mineralization drilled by previous operators, Duluth Metals (DM-T, DULMF-O) has cut a long interval of base metal and platinum group element mineralization in an exploration…
Millstream hits sparklies
Millstream Mines (MLM-V) has reported further sulphide intersections from its Potter property near Matheson, Ont., including a new zone not previously intersected.
Aurizon tallies 1.3M oz gold at Joanna in Quebec
Vancouver-based gold mine developer Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T, AZK-X) has tabled a low-grade resource exceeding 1 million oz. gold at its Joanna project in northwestern Quebec, 20 km east of Rouyn-Noranda.
Rockcliff adds 19 Snow Lake properties to portfolio (April 16, 2007)
Rockcliff Resources (RCR-V) has signed seven option agreements for seven volcanic massive sulphide property packages in the Snow Lake district of Manitoba from Hudson Bay Exploration and Development C…
Diamonds North recovers macros from Qavvik (April 16, 2007)
Vancouver — Caustic fusion processing of material from Diamonds North Resources’ (DDN-V, DDNFF-O) second drill hole at its Qavvik kimberlite, in Nunavut, returned 515 diamonds including 15 stones cat…
Spot Prices Courtesy of Scotiabank Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Precious Metals Price (US$/oz.) Change Gold $676.85 +13.35 Silver $13.84 +0.56 Platinum $1257.00 +13.00 Palladium $357.00 +6.00 Base Metals Price (US$/lb.) Change Nickel $20.63 +3.11 Lead $0.92 +0.06 Copper $3.55…
Editor picks: top stories of week 15
The most significant mining event of the fifteenth trading week was very good news, even if the announcement was br…
Aurcana launches La Negra production
Vancouver – Production has commenced at Aurcana’s (AUN-V, AUNFF-O) 80%-owned La Negra silver-copper-zinc-lead mine …