Toronto-based consulting firm Hatch has been retained by Queensland Nickel to improve the performance of its Yabulu refinery in Australia.The 25-year-old refinery currently produces 30,000 tons nickel…
Zinc and copper minerals are the focus of a drill program under way at the Lady Pond property, near Springdale, Nfld.Canaco Resources (CSE-M) is testing two parallel, 800-metre-long conductors that we…
The International Monetary Fund’s proposal to sell 10% of its gold to assist debt relief would harm, rather than help, some of the world’s poorest nations, says the World Gold Council.The New York-bas…
In yet another illustration of the rebirth of exploration in central Newfoundland, a drilling program, now under way, could blow a decade’s dust off two base metal deposits that have been inactive sin…
I recently had the privilege of renewing contact with George and Lois Jewett and the family of Merv Upham. I first met them in the 1950s, during the glory days of the development of ten uranium mines …
We note with interest the recent exchange of letters between John Cumming and Donald Bubar in the June 14-29 issue of The Northern Miner, regarding the claims made for the Pakeagama Lake pegmatite dis…
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A drill program funded by Westward Explorations (WWE-V) will test MacMillan Gold’s (MMG-T) Armonia gold property in central Peru.Westward can earn a 50% interest in the project from MacMillan. This ye…
The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 126.64 points (1.2%) to reach 10,721.63 over the report period ended June 22. But the continued strength of the American economy did nothing to stop gold’s sli…
Results from a 1998 drill campaign at the Camafuca diamond property in Angola’s Lunda Norte province suggest that the kimberlite may be richer than previously thought.SouthernEra Resources (SUF-T), wh…
A zinc-lead-silver project with similarities to the Polaris mine in Canada’s High Arctic has caught the eye of Rio Tinto Mining (RTP-N).The London-based major plans to spend US$500,000 on a summer pro…
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