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The Gold Hunter’s Guide to Nova Scotia by Tony Bishop. Author discusses where to find gold in Nova Scotia, how to stake a claim, prospect and pan. Finer details include mining law, equipment needed, h…

The troubled Tisdale joint venture is getting a new partner. Midas Minerals (TSE) has completed an agreement giving the company the right to earn a 60% interest at the fire-sale price of $2 million fr…

Nerco Minerals recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Con mine at Yellowknife. Mine officials and local residents marked the occasion at the Robertson headframe, the tallest structure in the …

An 8-year study by the Ontario Geological Survey has culminated in publication of a new book about gold, titled Archean Lode Gold Deposits in Ontario. Underlining the importance of the book’s subject …

“One thing that has always saddened me is the apparent lack of knowledge that most people have about the actual process of finding a mine.” That lack of understanding as he saw it inspired John Gammon…

The comnies involved in the Dome Mountain gold-silver project east of Smithers, B.C., say they have obtained “very encouraging” gold and silver values from underground drilling over a 130-ft length of…

Production costs at the Arthur White mine near Red Lake, Ont., averaged $510 per oz during the first half of this year, Cambior Inc (TSE) says. Current gold prices are about $525(C). Cambior, which so…

There’s a disturbing pattern emerging in mine safety statistics. While lost-time accidents have shown a significant decline over the past several years, mine fatalities have not been reduced at all. I…

It’s been a busy week for Galactic Resources (TSE). The company closed a series of related transactions valued at $39,375,000(US) with Homestake Mining, and more recently increased its stake in Panora…

At first it doesn’t quite compute, like seeing cows grazing on a city street or the Queen Mary lumbering for takeoff at an airport. But there it is, a 110-ft-high headframe smack in the middle of a fa…

Four new anomalous gold showings were recently uncovered on Tungco Resources’ (VSE) Waratah property in the Iskut River gold camp in northern B.C. The showings were found during this season’s explorat…