The government of Brazil is expelling 10,000 illegal gold prospectors from a reserve on the Venezuelan border belonging to the Yanomami indigenous people. An official from the National Indigenous Foun…
A notice of intention to make a proposal under a section of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act has been filed by Claude Resources. Under the Act, Claude will be permitted to make restructuring proposal…
A syndicate of 14 “respected risk-takers” led by Robert Ginn has launched a $250,000 drilling program in the old business district of Timmins, Ont. The drilling, centred east of the railway station, w…
The Central American nation of Costa Rica is host to a growing number of exploration companies. The country’s placer gold deposits have been exploited from the earliest days of the Spanish colonial re…
Western markets continued to advance during the period ended March 9, with the Vancouver Stock Exchange resource index posting a 13.53-point gain to 827.15 and the composite index adding a more modest…
Proven and probable reserves at the end of 1992 stood at 19.5 million oz., down 600,000 oz. from the previous year-end, Newmont Gold (NYSE) reports. Reserves added in 1992 amounted to 2 million oz. Ho…
Ecuador’s copper deposits have attracted two Vancouver juniors, Kookaburra Resources (VSE) and AG Armeno Resources (VSE), which hope to establish a solvent extraction-electrowinning operation (SX-EW) …
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US54-55 cents per lb. (Mar. 4, 1993). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US78-88 cents per lb. (July 30, 1992). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.35-2.70 per lb. (June 11, 1992). CAD…
A shipping season of at least five months is commercially feasible for Coronation Gulf, N.W.T., according to a recent study on Arctic navigation. The study looked at access to and from Coronation Gulf…
A trio of top managers at Thunderwood Resources (TSE) recently took a large share position in the junior explorer. According to the Ontario Securities Commission’s OSC Bulletin, Chairman James Gill bo…
The economy of the Dominican Republic improved markedly in 1991-92, reports the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Real gross domestic product grew by an estimated 6% in 1992 whereas inflation was est…
Wracked by civil unrest until three years ago, Nicaragua has embraced the mood of Latin America. The doors are open to foreign investment and privatization is in. The operating, 150-ton-per-day (tpd),…
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