Canadian Shield ups stake in Peruvian copper and gold properties
Canadian Shield Resources (CSP-V) has increased its stake in Gallant Minerals Peru – which holds four gold and cop…
Gold
Jinshan gets green light to advance Dadiangou
Vancouver – A newly received business license has allowed Jinshan Gold Mines (JIN-V) to begin delineation drilling…
Canarc intersects high-grade at New Polaris (September 19, 2006)
Vancouver – Drilling by Canarc Resource (CCM-T, CRCUF-O) at its New Polaris project in northwestern British Columbi…
Great Panther receives resource estimate for KM66
Vancouver – A newly released resource estimate of 22.3 million silver-equivalent oz. has prompted Great Panther Re…
St. Andrew buys Holloway assets from Newmont
St. Andrew Goldfields (SAS-T, SASXF-O) has agreed to buy subsidiary Holloway Mining from Newmont Mining (NEM-N, NMC…
Drilling enhances Lookout zone at Niblack property
Vancouver – Recent drilling by Niblack Mining (NIB-V) has intersected 14.94 metres grading 4.68 grams gold and 126…
Wesdome reopens Kiena
Val d’Or, Que. — The celebrations marking the official reopening of the Kiena underground gold mine on Aug. 18 were particularly sweet for Wesdome Gold Mines (WDO-T, WDOFF-O), coming as they did afte…
Gold Fields to buy Barrick’s Deep stake
Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) is selling its half interest in the South Deep gold mine in South Africa to Gold Fields (GFI-N) for nearly US$1.53 billion….
London junior picks up Bibiani
London-listed junior Central African Gold (CAN-L) has struck a deal with AngloGold Ashanti (AU-N, AGD-L) to buy the Bibiani gold mine in Ghana, along with the Bibiani North exploration permit….
Imperial Metals bids for bcMetals
Vancouver — A proposed takeover bid for bcMetals (C-V, BMTLF-O) could catapult Imperial Metals (III-T, IPMLF-O) into a much larger gold and copper producer, assuming the company completes the acquisi…
Gold Fields bids for WA, expanding Driefontein, Kloof
Coincident with its deal to acquire Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) half stake in the South Deep gold mine in South Africa, which is co-owned by Western Areas (WARJF-O, WAR-J), Gold Fields (gfi-n) is bo…
25 die in Siberian mine fire
Highland Gold Mining (HGHGF-O, HGM-L) says production will resume later this week at the Darasun gold mine in the Chita region of eastern Siberia where an underground fire killed 25 miners….