Pacific Minerals increases gold resource at 217 project
Vancouver — Pacific Minerals (PMZ-V) has tabled a new, independent resource estimate of its in-pit gold resource…
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Diamond Fields’ shares sink
Shares in marine diamond miner Diamond Fields International (DFI-T) dove 15, or 25%, to 45 in early trading in To…
Aquiline revs its drills
Ongoing drilling by Aquiline Resources (AQI-V) continues to return encouraging grades form the Calcatreu gold-silve…
Where do we go from here?
Along with salt and sharp-edged weapons-grade obsidian and chalcedony (flint), coloured gemstones probably have been mined longer than any other mineral commodities known to man. However, it is only o…
Editorial Cartoon (January 26, 2004)
Bacon at meeting
Gordon Bacon, vice-president of technology and engineering with Inco, will talk about hydrometallurgy for Voisey’s Bay concentrates at the next meeting of the the Minerals Economics Society Discussion…
The Northern Miner Indices (January 26, 2004)
North American Mining: 106.00 (-0.79)Small Producers: 112.22 (-3.26)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Anatolia buys 100% of Turkish find
Ilic, Turkey — It’s the Tom Prices, Escondidas and Grasbergs of tomorrow that Rio Tinto (RTP-N) is looking for — large, long-life, low-cost assets that have a material impact. At an estimated resour…
Teck takes shine to Freewest’s prospect
Teck Cominco (TEK-T) has invested in a grassroots gold discovery of Freewest Resources Canada (FWR-V) in northwestern Ontario.The Vancouver-based major will take down 1.1 million units of Freewest pri…
Gold prices revive NWT projects
Improved metal prices have always had a way of giving new life to old projects, so it need not be a surprise that the recent rise in the gold price has acted like a defibrillator on several projects i…
Yukon gold, gem exploration heats up
While discoveries of emerald and beryl in the Finlayson Lake area have enjoyed the highest profile, the territory’s last producer was the Brewery Creek gold mine, and gold is still a mainstay of miner…
Golden Hills shines for QGX
Impressive drill results keep rolling in for QGX (QGX-V) at its Golden Hills massive sulphide project in western Mongolia.The latest batch comes from the final 10 diamond drill holes (numbered 49-57) …