Satisfied with the title to the Cerro Samenta copper porphyry property in the Argentine province of Salta, partners Teck (TEK-T) and Mansfield Minerals (MDR-V) have signed a drilling contract for 10 h…
Ten months after withdrawing a merger proposal, Goldcorp (G.A-T) has made another offer to acquire the rest of Wharf Resources (WFR-T), operator of the Wharf and Golden Reward heap-leach gold mines in…
Toronto-based Rayrock Yellowknife Mines (RAY-T) plans to expand two of its gold mines in Nevada.The expansions at Dee and Marigold, combined with the start of production at its 35%-owned Daisy mine, a…
RTZ-CRA (RTZ-N) has gained a foothold in the Block A gold operations of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) in Irian Jaya, Indonesia.The deal calls for the former to acquire a 40% interest in produ…
October is “Export Month” in Canada, and this year, companies supplying goods and services to their traditional customers in the mining sector have much to celebrate.Canadian mining companies are busy…
The shares of South African-based Ocean Diamond Mining (ODM) are now being traded on the Canadian Dealing Network under the symbol OCND.Since its formation in late 1983, the company has mined diamonds…
Eastmain Resources (ESTR-C) and the Quebec Crown corporation Soquem have resumed drilling at the Clearwater project in the Eastmain River greenstone belt in northwestern Quebec.The drilling is intende…
A large number of junior companies, most of them Quebec-based, have tied up ground in the Lac Volant area, which was recently reopened by the Quebec government for staking.The area was withdrawn from …
Junior ProAm Explorations (PMX-V) will test a large, aeromagnetic anomaly near Winnipeg, Man., for platinum, palladium, nickel and copper.ProAm describes the 24-by-11-km aeromagnetic signature as “typ…
Stepout drilling by Gold Reserve (GLR-T) in the Kilometre 88 region of Venezuela continues to encounter gold mineralization. As a result, the company is opening up for future exploration an area west …
Ecuadorian Minerals (EMC-T) has completed a 47-hole program of infill drilling on the Gaby gold property in Ecuador.The 11,717-metre program, part of a prefeasibility study, tested a large gold geoche…
Auspex Minerals (APJ-V) has begun drill-testing the Sao Martinho portion of its Portalegre gold property in east-central Portugal.The initial target of the 70-metre program is the trenched zone that r…
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