Several promising grassroots discoveries, many of them made by prospectors, highlighted the 2000 exploration season in British Columbia and could provide a much-needed boost for exploration in the wes…
Standing pat in a region shunned by most is paying off for Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T).In 1994, when overseas ventures were still fashionable, Ivanhoe (then known as Indochina Goldfields) began amassing an …
Dare we say it? Coal making a comeback? Even the stature of gold hasn’t fallen as low as this once-mighty commodity, whose role in the development of modern industrial society remains virtually unchal…
For companies developing Alberta’s oil sands, the numbers just keep getting better: cash costs are down 50% from a decade ago; oil prices have doubled in the past two years; and demand for new sources…
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Vancouver — After a short drilling hiatus, in observance of the Vietnamese new year (Tet), Olympus Pacific Minerals (OYM-V) is back drilling at the Phuoc Son joint venture in the country’s central re…
75.98 (+2.47)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
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A mild uptrend brought improvements across most of the base metals complex during the report period Feb. 26-March 2, though aluminum, still recovering from the previous week’s sell-off, saw its averag…
Geita District, Tanzania — Tanzania’s mining renaissance owes much to the pioneering spirit of Ashanti Goldfields (ASL-N) and AngloGold (AU-N), which set out, in the late 1990s, to broaden their oper…
An increasing interest from the majors and an ongoing price rally are adding momentum to the search for platinum and palladium deposits in northern Ontario. At last count, more than a dozen companies …
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