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The cabinet of Ontario’s governing New Democratic Party is looking for a new mines minister following the resignation of Shelley Martel. The controversial representative of Sudbury East stepped down s…

Encouraging results have been received by River Gold Mines (TSE) from the company’s wholly-owned Eagle River gold project 50 km west of Wawa, Ont. The drill program involves detailed definition drilli…

Junior Abacus Minerals (VSE) has staked 2,000 hectares on the Lake property near Iskut River, B.C. The company arrived at the area by following a train of mineralized boulders in talus, which led to a…

Having completed preliminary exploration of several of its British Columbia properties, Pioneer Metals (TSE) plans to forge ahead with drilling. Trenching on the Hen property has uncovered the source …

Junior Madsen Gold (TSE) is taking the Ontario government and the Local Services Board of Madsen in the Red Lake area of northwestern Ontario to court. The company is seeking damages from the ministry…

Drills are turning on the Century gold property in Idaho. Dunlap Resources (VSE) is earning a 60% interest in the project from Cactus West Explorations (VSE) by spending US$1 million. Geological mappi…

The phenomenal growth in derivative products during the past few years is about adding value. But is it possible to add value to gold? The dealing community has set about doing precisely that by takin…

A comprehensive listing of weekly stock quotations for mining securities is provided by The Northern Miner. To assist readers who often know the name of the stock but not the exchange on which it trad…

Salt Lake City-based Centurion Mines (NASDAQ) reports a drill-inferred geologic reserve of 600 million tons grading 0.28% copper (3.4 billion lb.) for its South Tintic project near Eureka, Utah. Indep…

A milestone was reached this week at the Toronto Stock Exchange with the announcement that this year’s dollar-value-traded topped $147 billion. It is the second year in a row that a record was reached…

Alberta-listed Shiningtree Resources has bought 34 claims comprising 1,360 acres in southeastern Manitoba. The claims, situated north of Bernic Lake, are underlain by an east-west-trending structure t…

Partners Gold City Resources (ASE), Providence Industries (VSE) and privately held McKinney Mines have set the terms of their planned merger. Shareholders will receive one share in the new company for…