Junior market continues bull run
Vancouver — Canada’s junior exchange continued its fall rally over the week ended Oct. 28. The S&P-TSX Venture Exchange composite index surged 36.80 points, or 2.51%, and closed at 1,498.55.Shares in…
China Gold International Resources Corp Ltd
Pacific Min advances 217
Vancouver — Pacific Minerals (PMZ-V) has launched a mine development scoping study for the 217 gold project in China’s Inner Mongolia region. The junior has hired the Chinese Design Institute to prov…
Ivanhoe looks to China to unlock Gobi treasure
The ever-growing Turquoise Hill copper-gold discovery, deep in Mongolia’s South Gobi desert, is on the doorstep of a country that now consumes more copper and more steel than any other region in the w…
People (June 02, 2003)
Melkior — Florent Bell and Francois Desrosiers appointed to board of directors.Pacific Minerals — Rui Feng resigned as director.Pasminco — Mark Rayner, Geoff Allen and Andrew Guy resig…
People (May 19, 2003)
America Mineral Fields — Gregg Sedun resigned from board of directors and as secretary.Amerigo — Klaus Zeitler appointed president; Seven Dean appointed chairman; Roger Moss appointed VP exploration…
People (May 12, 2003)
Compania Minera Antamina — Wendell Pauling appointed president and CEO.Diamonds North — Bruce Kienlen appointed to exploration team.DiamondWorks — Robert Rainey appointed CFO.
Pacific Minerals cuts high-grade PGMs in China
Vancouver — Pacific Minerals (PMZ-V) has intersected high-grade platinum, palladium and gold mineralization while drilling the JBS project in China’s Yunnan province.Ongoing infill drilling is design…
People (April 07, 2003)
Diavik Diamond Mines — President and CEO Philip du Toit resigns.GoldSpring — John F. Cook appointed president; Les Cahan appointed treasurer.Magnum d’Or — Reno Calabrigo appointed pres…
PEOPLE (March 03, 2003)
Canadian Copper and Brass Development Association — Stephen Knapp appointed executive director, succeeding Arnold Knapp, who is retiring.Dios Exploration — Claude Britt appointed to board of directo…
Olympus resumes drilling
Vancouver — Armed with a $625,000 financing, Olympus Pacific Minerals (OYM-V) has resumed drilling at its Phuoc Son gold project in central Vietnam.The current, 2,400-metre infill program is focused …
Investors eye potential at China’s Boka play
Vancouver — The giant Boka gold deposit in southern China has grabbed the attention of investors, who, despite the absence of drill results, have rewarded property operator Southwestern Resources (SW…
Juniors keep exploration (barely) alive BC
Vancouver — Despite the implementation of one of the most attractive incentive programs in the country, mineral exploration in Canada’s westernmost province failed to ignite in 2002.In 2001, total fi…