New faces grace Wheaton River’s board
Denver — A restructured board of directors and a $5.5-million private placement are designed to boost the financial prospects of Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T).The private placement is with Endeavor …
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Orezone ties on to Sadiola
Ottawa-based Orezone Resources (ORZ-T) has picked up an option on the Kantela property, which adjoins the producing Sadiola Hill gold mine in western Mali.The deal, with a private syndicate, gives the…
Ontario unveils map database
A database financed by the Ontario government promises to improve access to information about mining lands tenure.CLAIMaps II provides information and maps via the Internet, and, as its name implies, …
Eastmain and Soquem boost Clearwater resource
Partners Eastmain Resources (ER-T) and Quebec-government-owned Soquem have upped the resource estimate of their jointly held Clearwater (or Eau Claire) gold property in the James Bay region of northwe…
Expatriate steps up exploration
Vancouver — Expatriate Resources (EXR-V) will spend $3 million to advance the Finlayson polymetallic project, in the Yukon, to the final feasibility stage.The project comprises the Kudz Ze Kayah depo…
Trade war affects mining The march of folly
This newspaper really missed the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy at the recent annual convention of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada, and not merely because we felt the absenc…
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Canadian Mine Show a hit at PDAC
“It was pretty fun.”Those were the words of 9-year-old Angela Reid of Scarborough, Ont., after touring the Great Canadian Mine Show, which made its debut at the recent convention of the Prospectors & …
Geoscientists provided with ethics code
Regulations under the Professional Geoscientists Act of Ontario, setting out licensing criteria and a code of ethics, are now in effect.The act, passed in June 2000, established the new Association of…
Diamond Fields, Trans Hex join forces in Namibia
Circumventing the need for financing, Diamond Fields International (DFI-T) has teamed up with South African miner Trans Hex Group to exploit the junior’s marine diamond property, off the coast of Nami…
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GQ find yields high micro count for Band-Ore
A new discovery area on Band-Ore Resources’ (BAN-T) GQ property, 20 km west of Wawa, Ont., has returned high microdiamond counts from boulders consisting of diatreme breccia.Four new samples, each wei…