On-line procurer aims for 1 billion
Quadrem, the mining industry’s largest on-line procurement service, expects to rack up US$1 billion in transactions this year.Moreover, the company expects the value of transactions to escalate to US$…
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De Beers returns to Doyle Lake
The Canadian exploration division of De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBRSY-Q) is back on the ground at Doyle Lake in the Northwest Territories, taking further till samples from the LA 1-25 claim bock. Th…
Twin Mining shareholder gushes over Jackson Inlet diamonds
Antwerp-based Diamond Trading N.V. has provided Twin Mining (TWG-T) with a glowing assessment of 86 diamonds found in a 18.41-tonne sample collected from the Freightrain kimberlite at the Jackson Inle…
Drilling a bust at LDG
Drilling by De Beers Canada Exploration on the LDG (formerly Thor) property in the Northwest Territories failed to intersect kimberlite.Three targets were drilled on the basis of till sampling and gro…
Rio narrows gap with Anglo
Rio Tinto continues to gain ground on Anglo American in its quest for first place among global mining companies, as ranked by the Raw Materials Group in Who Owns Who in Mining 2001.The U.K.-based tita…
King drilling advances in Far North
Vancouver — Diamondex Resources (DSP-V) is stepping up the pace of exploration at its wholly owned King property in the Northwest Territories.The junior is drilling holes 4 and 5 as part of a $2.7-mi…
Knife pipe pegged at 6 ha
Based on the results of delineation drilling, together with ground geophysical data, the Knife kimberlite pipe in Nunavut is estimated to comprise a surface area of 6 ha.During spring drilling, the Ca…
Snap Lake underground mine takes shape under De Beers
Snap lake, N.W.T. — The Canadian North comprises a vast region of lakes, rivers, Arctic tundra and, more recently, diamonds. With one mine already established and three others scheduled to come on-st…
Rough sales hurt by slowdown
In the first half of 2001, sales of rough gem diamonds by the Diamond Trading Co. (DTC), the marketing arm of De Beers, were hampered by a slowdown in the global economy, particularly in the U.S., whi…
SouthernEra reduces debt with share issue
The international arm of Rand Merchant Bank has agreed to convert another US$2 million of debt owed by SouthernEra Resources (SUF-T) into shares.RMB International (Dublin) is to receive 1.5 million sh…
Drilling planned for Knife
A planned 5-hole drilling campaign on the newly discovered Knife kimberlite pipe, 80 km south of Coronation Bay in Nunavut, is aimed at delineating the size and internal structure of the body, while p…
Partners plan drilling
A budget of $4.8 million has been approved by the Fort la Corne joint-venture partners for further drilling and evaluation of three kimberlite bodies at the Saskatchewan project.Partners De Beers Ca…