1997

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J. Boulle appointed chairman and director; Michael Muzylowski and Brian Irwin appointed directors.

Nizar Bharmal appointed director.

Fidel Araneta appointed senior director of acquisitions for the Philippines; Laura Lee Duffett appointed secretary and director; Ian McCartney appointed vice-president and director; Deborah Thiel appo…

Stephen Walters appointed exploration manager of Indonesia.

Douglas Cook appointed director.

A paragraph in your editorial on Bre-X Resources, Barrick Gold and the Indonesian government, entitled “Hardball or spitball?’ (T.N.M., Dec. 9/96), represents an unbelievable zenith of naivete on your…

The latest round of drilling on the Chicharra gold target in Mexico’s Sonora state has returned encouraging results for Geomaque Exploration (GEO-T).The Chicharra lies 2.5 km northwest of the company’…

Believing there is potential to double the current resource of 220,000 contained ounces, Energold Mining (EGD-V) has embarked on a minimum 50-hole drill program on the Higo gold concession in the Domi…

In South Africa, Botswana Diamondfields (BWD-V) is cleaning up after a mud slide that killed 20 people at its Rovic diamond mine in late November.The Vancouver-based company has launched a recovery pr…

Infill drilling by Kinross Gold (K-T) on the Main zone of the Goldbanks project, near Winnemucca, Nev., indicates a substantially larger gold resource than previously estimated.The new figure, estimat…

Wednesday, January 8, 1997Price (US)Week’s ChangeGold*$355.80- $13.80Silver*$ 4.66…