Not a banner year for foreign exploration
Sobs clearly outnumbered shouts of “Eureka!” by a wide margin in 1997, a year in which some fine foreign exploration results were overshadowed by salted samples and depressed metal prices.The most dis…
Arizona Star Resource Corp
STOCK MARKET — Junior gold mining stocks help keep western markets afloat — Cross Lake makes splash after Timmins area find; Silverstone, Haddington also
upThe Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index edged up 6.55 points, or 0.8%, over the holiday-shortened report period ended Oct. 14 to close at 838.4. The mining index finished at 748.74, up 6.48 poi…
STOCK MARKET — TSE hits another record high as gold majors rally — Precious and base metal prices remain lacklustre
The Toronto Stock Exchange continued to perform at an impressive pace during the report period of Oct. 8 to Oct. 14, with the TSE 300 composite index closing at 7168.77, a drop of 41.16 points, or 0.6…
Bema takes gold price on chin
Low gold prices are taking their toll on Bema Gold (BGO-T). Like everyone else in the business, the company witnessed a steady erosion in its share price as the yellow metal proceeded to spiral downwa…
STOCK MARKETS — Gold drops like a brick as western markets stumble — Junior explorers hit hardest, despite good news for some
Gold tumbled to a 12-year low during the report period ended July 8, with western markets following close behind. The Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index lost 60.86 points, or 7.03%, to close at …
STOCK MARKETS — VSE composite and resource indices flattened by Bre-X debacle — Bright spots include Arizona Star, which unveiled resource estimate for Chilean gold-Copper play
The cloud of uncertainty looming over Bre-X Minerals continued to rain on most junior mining stocks.Led by the resource sector, the Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index lost 44.85 points, or 3.92%…
Drilling expands Cerro Casale gold-copper deposit
Deep drilling at the Aldebaran property in northern Chile has expanded the width of the low-grade Cerro Casale gold-copper porphyry deposit.The main porphyry zone was previously estimated by partners …
STOCK MARKETS — Foreign plays keep VSE active
The Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index was up 13.92 points over the report period ended Aug. 27 to close at 1,211.95, while the resource index slipped 9.85 points to 2,420.11.Partners Oro Belle …
STOCK MARKETS — VSE gets jitters in wake of selloff
Western markets remain nervous in the wake of the sell-off that lopped more than 10% from Vancouver indices in the space of a few days during the first week of June.Share prices continued their slide …
NEWS ROUNDUP — Leach tests help Aldebaran
Leach tests demonstrate that material from the Aldebaranproject in Chile will not require fine crushing.Partners Bema Gold (TSE) and Arizona Star Resource (VSE) report that three 22-ton tests, which s…