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Despite a brief dip back below US$500 per oz. in the spot price of gold, the TSX Venture Exchange closed out the pre-Christmas trading session in a festive spirit, gaining 2.2% or 47.84 points to set…

Resource-related stocks were generally up in the pre-holiday trading period on American equity markets, though the broader market moved sideways. The Standard & Poors 500 index was up 8.74 points…

Vancouver — Continuing a trend of pulling long mineralized intersections, Northern Peru Copper (NOC-T, NPUCF-O) delivered its best hole yet from the Galeno project, located about 6…

International Minerals (IMZ-T, IMZLF-O) has pegged the recently discovered San Luis vein system on the Rio Blanco epithermal gold-silver project in southern Ecuador with an initial…

Vancouver — Palmarejo Gold‘s (PJO-V, PMJOF-O) drill program on its namesake gold-silver project, in the Temoris District of northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state, has returned wide, hi…

Exploration drilling east of the proposed open pit at the Kemess North copper-gold deposit in northwestern British Columbia has intersected similar mineralization to a hole drilled earlier in the year…

Despite high gold prices, grassroots exploration is a tough sell these days, with most juniors preferring projects with existing resources or near-term production potential. One company keeping the ar…

One need look no further than the Internet recruitment pages of some of the bigger mines under development in North America to gauge the gravity of the labour shortage in the mining sector….

With Placer Dome‘s (PDG-T, PDG-N) shareholders less than eager to tender to its original takeover offer, Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) has stuffed a bit more green…

Aquarius Platinum (AQPTY-O) has moved to dismiss mining contractor Moolman Mining at its Marikana platinum mine in the Bushveld region of South Africa, citing an “actionable misrepr…