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Vancouver — Victoria Resource (VIT-V) has hit a 355-metre alteration zone containing high gold grades while testing the new RJR zone on its Mill Canyon property in Nevada.

Vancouver — Drilling by Miramar Mining (MAE-T) on the Goose Lake deposit at the Back River project in Nunavut has returned significant gold mineralization over good widths.

Vancouver — Arizona Star Resource (AZS-V) and Bema Gold (BGO-T) are threatening to go to arbitration to gain Placer Dome‘s (PDG-T) 51% stake in the Cerro Casale porphyry gold and copper pro…

Vancouver — Two deep holes have confirmed and extended higher-grade gold mineralization in the West Wood breccia zone of the Sleeper deposit in Nevada’s Humboldt Cty. The property is held 50-50 by New Sleeper Gold (NWS-V) and <...

Our last issue was not sufficiently clear about the relationship between De Beers and Band-Ore Resources (BAN-T) at the latter’s GQ diamond property near Wawa, Ont.

Vancouver — Drilling at Great Basin Gold‘s (GBG-T) Burnstone deposit in the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa has resulted in higher resource estimates for Areas 1 and 2.

The government of Kenya has granted Tiomin Resources (TIO-T) a 21-year mining licence for the long-stalled Kwale titanium-sands project, near Mombasa. The licence allows for the mining of ilmenite, rutile, and zircon.

A late-period slide erased earlier gains and helped the Toronto Stock Exchange’s gold index end the July 7-13 report period 0.23 of a point lower at 202.97. The gold miners mirrored the yellow metal, which managed to retain some of its earlier gai…

Scandinavian Gold (SGL-T) has received promising results from metallurgical work conducted on core from its Keivitsa nickel/copper/platinum-group-element deposit in northern Finalnd.

After spurring some much-needed investor enthusiasm by shooting over the US$400-per-oz. mark, gold dropped sharply near the end of the trading period on July 13, closing at $401.70 in New York on stronger U.S. economic data. The price of gold star…