Anglo find fails to launch Philippine flurry
Vancouver — Mining companies willing to face considerable political risks have been rewarded with impressive exploration results in the Philippines. However, advancing discoveries to the development …
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Axmin seeks West African gold
Many major gold companies have pulled in their horns over the past four years, rendering a good number of African exploration properties inactive. This has presented an opportunity for junior explorer…
Sudbury PGM play enters new phase
Though nowhere near last year’s record highs, palladium is still trading at three times the historical range, and that bodes well for a group of companies exploring for platinum-group-metal (PGM) depo…
Corriente, BHP Billiton, Lowell make progress in Ecuador
Exploration drilling in Ecuador’s Corriente copper belt by partners Corriente Resources (CTQ-T) and BHP Billiton has delineated a significant copper-gold resource in the Mirador deposit.The Corriente …
Ivanhoe finds gold-rich copper zone at Turquoise Hill
Encouraged by the potential of the Turquoise Hill copper-gold project in southern Mongolia, Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T) has assigned three drill rigs to the Central Oyu zone, where it recently cut a signifi…
New wave of explorers seeks Olympic Dam-type deposits
A quarter-century after the Olympic Dam discovery in Australia left geologists struggling to classify the giant oddity they’d found, a new and better-informed wave of exploration for Olympic Dam-style…
FPO Pacific Rim, Dayton propose merger
In what has been described as a “win-win situation” by both parties, Pacific Rim Mining (PFG-T) and Dayton Mining (DAY-T) are proposing a merger. Management of Pacific Rim likes the high-grade potenti…
BC gov’t sets mining goals
The provincial government will do whatever it can to put British Columbia back on top of the mining industry, and I want to thank those companies that have stayed in the province and toughed it out.Am…
Barometer rising
The annual meeting of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada is traditionally the time when people in the Canadian mining industry take the temperature and pulse of their business. Every…
TVX learns ABCs of Greek law
Greece’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’Etat, has stripped TVX Gold (TVX-T) of its right to develop the Olympias project as was envisaged in a 2000 feasibility study.Olympias, with reserv…
Codelco opts out of Disputada bid (March 11, 2002)
Vancouver — Copper miners continue to adjust to low global prices, with Grupo Mexico considering further production cuts and Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco) opting out of the contes…
Fusion key step in fire assaying for PGEs
Fire assay is the preferred method for assaying rocks for platinum group elements (PGEs). The classical lead collection method is suitable for determining platinum, palladium, gold and silver in most …