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Field personnel personnel prepare a geological survey grid on Ashton Mining of Canada's Foxtrot property in the Otish mountains of north-central Quebec.

Ashton, Soquem await final results at Renard

Although results are still pending for more than half of a 635-tonne bulk sample collected from a core area of the Renard kimberlite cluster in north-central Quebec, it would appear that the lack of big-carat stones, combined with a growing percen…


Queenston gains new zone east of McBean

Deep drilling by Queenston Mining (QMI-T) at the Princeton property, 15 km east of Kirkland Lake, Ont., has revealed a new zone of gold mineralization east of the former McBean gold mine.


APAC to merge with Asian merchant bank

Vancouver — Vancouver’s APAC Minerals (APC-V) intends to merge with Golden China, a Toronto-based private merchant bank. The move is designed to give APAC better access to China’s mining industry.


Pele strikes gold zone at Wawa

Pele Mountain Resources (GEM-V) has found significant gold while prospecting at its Highland property, 50 km northeast of Wawa, in Riggs Twp., Ont.



Apollo pours gold at Standard

Vancouver — Denver-based Apollo Gold (APG-T) has poured its first gold-silver dor bar from the Standard mine in northwestern Nevada.



Way cleared for Kensington

Vancouver — The U.S. Forest Service has cleared the way for all other federal and state permitting to begin on Coeur d’Alene Mines‘ (CDE-N) Kensington gold project, 45 miles north of Juneau, Alaska.


Tsunami disaster teaches lesson

Spurred by countless heart-wrenching, as well as heart-warming, stories from the mega-catastrophe generated by the tsunami along the coasts of southern Asia on Dec. 26, many individual Canadians (as well as some concerned mining companies) have re…


Exploration spending on rise

In 2004, Canadian companies spent a total of about US$3.55 billion on nonferrous mineral exploration companies, according to the Metals Economics Group. The estimate is based on an analysis of the exploration budgets of 1,138 companies, using a cu…


GeolSoc boasts top speakers

Michael Doggett, director of the master’s program in mineral exploration at Queen’s University, will be among the speakers at GeolSoc, a conference held at the same time as the annual general meeting of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy…



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