Falconbridge eager to plug away at Espedalen
Vancouver – Despite not replicating the high-grade nickel found in its first set of drillholes at the Espedalen pro…
Blackstone Resources Inc
Junior Exchange continues summer rally
Vancouver — Canada’s junior exchange continued its summer rally over the week ended Sept. 2. The S&P-TSX Venture Exchange composite index jumped 42.76 points, or 3.35%, and closed at 1,318.37.Verena …
ALASKA & THE YUKON — Pogo area gold play mixed bag for juniors
With this year’s field season drawing to a close, the area play around the 5.2-million-oz. Pogo gold project in Alaska failed to generate much speculative interest or excitement for the dozen or so co…
Companies (November 01, 1999)
Achieva DevelopmentAlmaden ResourcesAnooraq ResourcesAsarcoAshanti GoldfieldsAtna ResourcesBarrick GoldBlackstone ResourcesBlue Desert MiningBreakwater ResourcesCambiorCamflo ResourcesCamnor Resources…
EXPLORATION 1999 — Juniors converge near Teck’s Pogo gold play
The area play around the 5.2-million-oz. Pogo gold project in Alaska is slowly generating interest among speculative investors, and this slowness is partly due to the lack of historical exploration in…
Companies (March 15, 1999)
Alberta EnergyAltius MineralsAnglo AmericanArgentina GoldAshanti GoldfieldsAshton Mining of CanadaAzimut ExplorationBarrick GoldBHP DiamondsBlack Hawk MiningBoreal ExplorationBroken Hill Pr…
Drilling activity paying off in Timmins
The opening weeks of 1999 have seen a series of discoveries in the Timmins and Matheson areas of northeastern Ontario.Drilling by Pentland Firth Ventures (PFO-T) at the Ludgate property in Michaud Twp…
Companies (February 01, 1999)
Aber ResourcesAmerica Mineral FieldsAnglo AmericanArgentina GoldArmistice ResourcesAzco MiningBarrick GoldBlackrock VenturesBlackstone ResourcesConsolidated Trilogy VenturesDe Beers Consolid…
Companies (January 04, 1999)
@IDX:Aber ResourcesAltius MineralsArchon MineralsArgentina GoldAsarcoAscot ResourcesAtna ResourcesBanro ResourceBarrick GoldBlackstone ResourcesBroken Hill ProprietaryCamecoCamphor VenturesCanyon Reso…
Exploration down in ’98 but not out — Argentina, Newfoundland among hot spots for junior companies
Similar in mood to 1997, though comparatively free of scandal, 1998 will be remembered as the year exploration companies replaced promotional antics with survival tactics. But despite the bearish mark…
Australasian PGM sector needs dash of Fipke magic
In the mid 1980s, the man who later undertook the great geological detective work that put Canada on the world diamond map, was in the deep south of New Zealand, in conditions as cold as, but a lot we…
BASE METALS — Insular explores for Sierra Madre gold
An exploration program has kicked into gear at the El Diamante project in Mexico’s Sierra Madre gold belt.Insular Explorations (ISX-V), which is acquiring a 70% working interest in the gold-silver pro…