Aquest cuts gold-antimony at Anabella
Junior Aquest Minerals (AQU-V) has intersected variable thicknesses of gold-antimony mineralization in the first four holes of a scheduled 25-hole drill program at the Anabella project in Guatemala.Th…
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Green light for Pirquitas
With an operating permit now in hand, Sunshine Mining & Refining (SSC-N) is trying to arrange financing to develop its Pirquitas silver-tin property in the northern Argentine province of Jujuy.The com…
Meetings (July 19, 1999)
July 19 Barra July 19 Energas July 19 Sundance July 20 Archangel July 20 Canspar July 20 Exito July 20 Northway July 20 Pan American July 20 Poseidon July 21 Allied Northern July 21 Belmont July 21 Bo…
Meridian options Venturina
Nevada-based Meridian Gold (MNG-T) has entered into a joint-venture option agreement with International Northair Mines (INM-V) on the latter’s early-stage Venturina gold property in the Sierra Madre r…
Nuinsco options new ground
Nuinsco Resources (NWI-T) has entered into an option agreement with Freewest Resources Canada (FWR-M) on its properties adjoining Nuinsco’s Lac Rocher claims in northwestern Quebec.Nuinsco can acquire…
Low price takes shine off Las Cristinas
The current slump in gold prices is causing Placer Dome (PDG-T) to consider suspending the US$575-million Las Cristinas project in Bolivar state, Venezuela.Placer Dome has a 70% stake in the project, …
Newhawk to merge with Silver Standard
Silver Standard Resources (SSO-V) has agreed to acquire all the outstanding shares of Newhawk Gold Mines (NHG-T).Shareholders in Newhawk will receive one share of Silver Standard for every six shares …
Avalon completes Big Whopper study
A prefeasibility study of the Big Whopper petalite deposit, north of Kenora, Ont., has boosted the total resource of the Separations Rapids project by 64% to 11.6 million tonnes grading 1.34% Li2O.The…
Breakwater extends Dona Rosa deposit
Drilling by Breakwater Resources (BWR-T) at its El Toqui zinc-gold mine in southern Chile has extended mineralization into areas adjacent to the Dona Rosa deposit that were previously believed to be b…
Geomaque uncovers zone at Vueltas del Rio
A brighter exploration picture is forming at the Vueltas del Rio open-pit gold project in Honduras, with the discovery of a new zone of near-surface mineralization in an area previously proposed as a …
Inco to drill at Voisey’s Bay
Drills will be back at work on the main mineralized zones of the Voisey’s Bay property this season, indicating that there may be some headway in the year-long dispute over development of the large nic…