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The Washington State Department of Ecology has issued water permits to the Crown Jewel gold project, bringing it one step closer to production.The Department of Ecology granted the permits following a…

At first glance, the Toodoggone camp of northern British Columbia does not appear to have much in common with the North Lampung district at the southern end of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.However…

Donner Minerals (DML-V) and Teck (TEK-T) have hit only two 1-metre intersections of massive sulphides at their South Voisey’s Bay joint venture in Labrador, but the dream of finding another huge nicke…

Montreal-based Cambior (CBJ-T) will join with Metallica Resources (MR-T) of Denver, Colo., to develop the latter’s Cerro San Pedro gold-silver project, 350 km northwest of Mexico City.Cambior can acqu…

A host of exploration companies has joined the land rush triggered by Ashton Mining of Canada’s (ACA-T) discovery of diamond-bearing kimberlites in the Buffalo Hills area of northern Alberta.* Victory…

An agreement with Mirandor Exploration (MIG-M) sets the stage for Kinross Gold (K-T) to earn a 50% interest in the Railroad gold project in Nevada’s Carlin trend.To earn the interest from Mirandor, Ki…

Partners Soloman Resources (SRB-V) and Channel Resources (CHU-T) have announced encouraging drill results from the Bombore First project in Burkina Faso, West Africa.An 11,558-metre Rotary Air Blast (…

Metallica Resources (MR-T) has signed an agreement to buy the Mara Rosa gold mine in Brazil from a subsidiary of Western Mining (WSTM-N).Metallica paid an initial US$400,000 upon signing the agreement…

Junior Minera Andes (MAI-A) has drills turning on the Arroyo Nuevo gold project in the west-central Argentine province of Neuqun.The company is testing for sediment-hosted gold mineralization in a seq…

Junior producer Geomaque Explorations (GEO-T) has received an environmental permit for its Vueltas del Rio gold project in northwestern Honduras, paving the way for construction to begin in the coming…