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At the Autumn Precious Metals Seminar, held recently in Toronto and co-sponsored by the Silver Institute and Gold Fields Mineral Services, representatives of five North American silver producers gave …

Vancouver — Buoyed by a surging gold price, junior Nevsun Resources (NSU-T) is wasting no time advancing its two promising projects in Mali, West Africa.The junior ventured into the region back in 19…

The biggest deal of the report period was WMC Resources’ US$87.5-million acquisition from South Africa’s Southern Mining of the world’s largest undeveloped titanium mineral-sands deposit: Corridor San…

BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company, announced that its 2003 copper production target for the world’s largest copper mine, Escondida in Chile, is being set at 1.05 million tonnes, while a…

St. John’s, NFLD — An increased level of exploration activity in Newfoundland and Labrador has resulted in 30,500 new claims being staked this year (to the end of October), surpassing the previous hi…

The gold bugs watched in glee as their arch nemesis, JP Morgan, the counterparty to most gold-derivatives trading, issued a statement that refuted rumours it had recently lost upwards of US$17 billlio…

The Toronto Stock Exchange Composite Index slipped 70.37 points to end the Nov. 6-12 report period at 6,329.27.The TSE’s gold index was up 5.39 points, partly on the back of a US$5.70-gain in the pric…

While gold prices ended the report period virtually unchanged at around US$317 per oz., gold bugs drew encouragement that most of the gold miners showed uncharacteristic strength and added to the prev…

Vancouver — Asarco, the U.S. subsidiary of Grupo Mexico, is considering closing its Mission copper mine is southern Arizona.The announcement, prompted by high production costs and low copper prices, …

After dropping from US$40 to US$30 in the previous week, the shares of cobalt refiner OM Group collapsed further during the report period, falling 71% on Oct. 29 to US$8.95 and closing at US$7.49 on t…

The Ekati mine in the Northwest Territories is celebrating its fourth anniversary on a note of considerable achievement: production of more than US$1.6 billion worth of diamonds to date.Ekati was brou…

Shares in Cleveland-based cobalt refiner OM Group crashed to a three-and-a-half-year low during the report period following its mention in a UN Security Council report on illegal mining activity in th…