Australian Solomons’ drive to bring back Gold Ridge
Tsunamis and civil wars represent the darker side of building a mine in a tropical paradise like the Solomon Island…
Gold
Glencairn falls hard on Q2 results
Troubles continue for Glencairn Gold (GGG-T,GLE-X) as its shares took a pounding after releasing second quarter res…
Hungry for Meridian, Yamana ups cash component of offer
Six weeks after Yamana Gold (YRI-T, AUY-N, YAU-L) announced its original proposal to merge and take over Meridian G…
Roxmark pulls high-grade gold at Northern Empire (August 13, 2007)
Recent drilling at the Northern Empire property, northeast of Beardmore, Ont., has intersected high-grade gold …
Taurus results lift Cusac
Cusac Gold Mines (CQC – T, CUSIF – O) got a boost on the market after announcing wide intersects of low grade gold …
Freewest to drill deeper at Clarence Stream
Freewest Resources (FWR-V) intersected visible gold in all recent drill holes at its Clarence Stream property, 70 k…
Commentary: R. vs. Felderhof — an industry post-mortem
Judge Peter Hryn acquitted John Felderhof, former vice-president of Bre-X Minerals, on Securities Act charges (four of insider trading and four of misleading disclosure, all in connection with the 1997…
Nampala up to 760,000 oz. gold
Now that Robex Resources (RBX-V, RSRBF-O) has an official inferred resource for its Nampala gold deposit in southern Mali, it’s looking at where to drill next to bump those numbers into the indicated …
St. Elias mini-bulk sample returns 26.4 grams gold
St. Elias Mines (SLI-V, SELSF-O) shares were down about 9% recently as the company made news of a 4.1-tonne portion of a mini-bulk sample that graded 318 grams gold per tonne at its Tesoro gold projec…
Northern Dynasty lands Anglo as Pebble partner
Vancouver — Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-V, NAK-X) has brought on senior miner Anglo American (AAUKD-Q, AAL-L, AGL-J) as an equal partner to develop its Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry depos…
Editorial: Hopes for retribution for Busang keep fading
What had most mining people talking during the week ended Aug. 4, the 31st trading week of 2007, was the acquittal on July 31 of former vice-president of exploration at Bre-X Minerals, John Felderhof,…
Alexis looks past Lac Herbin feasibility
With a recent feasibility study, Alexis Minerals (AMC-V, AXSMF-O) has been given the go-ahead for 18 months of gold production at Lac Herbin, a past-producing gold mine in Quebec’s Val d’Or camp, but …