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Vancouver — Trenching and soil sampling have outlined two systems of gold mineralization on the Mt. Allemata gold-silver-platinum property in Papua New Guinea.

Nobody actually said it would be easy. But they sure implied that consolidating the mining industry was a bit of a downhill run.

A partnership between the federal government and Memorial University in St. John’s, Nfld., is designed to strengthen research capacity in Atlantic Canada.

Richard Ross, president and CEO of Inmet Mining, has been named chairman of the Mining Association of Canada.

Aber Diamond — Laurent Mommeja appointed director.

Toronto-based Crystallex International (KRY-T) has launched a bid to acquire the rest of the shares of El Callao Mining (ECM-V) that it does not already own.

Drilling by Aquiline Resources (AQI-V) has intersected 5 metres grading 15.2 grams gold per tonne at depth on the Calcatreu gold-silver project in Argentina’s Rio Negro province.

Vancouver — Atna Resources (ATN-T) has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the former Pinson gold mine in Nevada from Barrick Gold (ABX-T).

Vancouver — Good news follows bad for Miramar Mining‘s (MAE-T) wholly owned Hope Bay gold project, near Bathurst Inlet in Nunavut: little more than three weeks after being notified of a delay in permitting for the Doris North d…

The US$654-million Collahuasi Rosario mine in Chile, co-owned by Falconbridge (FL-T) and Anglo American (AAUK-Q), is producing copper ahead of schedule and under budget.

Vancouver — StrataGold (SGV-V) has optioned the 14.2-sq.-km Tassawini gold property in northwestern Guyana.

Anatolia Minerals (ANOU-T) has defined considerable gold following reverse-circulation drilling at its pler project in east-central Turkey.