Vancouver — Crystallex International (KRY-T) has tabled a new reserve estimate for the long-stalled Las Cristinas gold project in southeastern Venezuela.An independent study by Reno, Nev.-based Mine …
Additional drilling and re-assessment of the operating conditions at the Troilus gold mine in north-central Quebec have extended the life of the mine a further four years, says owner Inmet Mining (IMN…
Fifty-eight per cent of Montana voters would support efforts to modify or overturn I-137, the law passed in 1998 that bans the use of cyanide in open-pit gold and silver mining, according to a poll fi…
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$330.25+0.65Silver$4.40+0.02Platinum$640.00-4.00P…
Gossan Resources (GSS-V) has embarked on a 1,250-metre diamond drilling program on the Bird River sill complex in southeastern Manitoba.Work is focused on the Chrome Extension and Peterson blocks. The…
The perils of being a one-mine company: Agnico-Eagle Mines (AGE-T) reports that a 30,000-ton rock fall has occurred in two production stopes at its LaRonde gold operation in Quebec.The fall occurred a…
Vancouver — North America’s third-largest gold company reduced its hedging program by 1.1 million oz. in the first quarter of 2003.Placer Dome (PDG-T) converted 920,000 oz., which were committed unde…
Demand for lithium metals and chemicals is expected to reach 11,250 tonnes in 2006, according to a report by London-based Roskill Information Services. That’s the equivalent of 60,000 tonnes of lithiu…
London-based Rio Tinto is using data access protocol (DAP) technology as a way of managing exploration data.The technology, provided by Toronto-based Geosoft, allows users to transfer large amounts of…
Employees at the Brunswick lead-zinc smelter in Belledune, N.B., have voted 69% in favour of a 3-year collective agreement that contains no wage increases and will see the smelter shut down for four m…
Inco has won an award from the federal government for reducing greenhouse gases and conserving evergy at its operations in Copper Cliff, Ont.The reductions were achieved as a result of ideas submitted…
Vancouver — Drilling at Platinum Group Metals’ (PTM-V) Elandsfontein property in South Africa has intercepted the UG-2 platinum reef at shallow depths.Four drill holes cut the reef at depths of less …
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