1998

Junior Gitennes Exploration (GIT-T) has launched an underground drilling program on the Rio Suro zone at its Virgen property in northern Peru in an attempt to outline a proven reserve to a vertical de…

Drilling by partners Falconbridge (FL-T) and NAR Resources (NRL-M) at their Maramba project in northeastern Zimbabwe has defined a 4.5-km alteration zone containing significant copper-zinc-silver mass…

Olympus Pacific Minerals (OYM-V) has inked a deal with Indochina Goldfields (ING-T) to defer, for 12 months, $541,000 of a $641,000 payment due Sept. 11. The payment relates to Olympus Pacific’s acqui…

Two spectrometers are being used to assess drill results from the Black Lake-Newnham Lake uranium project in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca basin.The project, part of a joint venture between JNR Resources (…

Major companies rarely bother exploring properties unless they see potential for mineral deposits big enough, or rich enough, to make an important contribution to their bottom line. That, in a nutshel…

Junior Fort Knox Gold Resources (FNX-T) will get a helping hand from its major shareholder, Inco (N-T), in its quest for Labrador properties prospective for Voisey’s Bay-type nickel-copper-cobalt depo…

A mini-bulk drill sample collected this past winter from the 5034 kimberlite pipe on the AK property in the Northwest Territories has returned results consistent with previous work.Monopros, a subsidi…

Once known principally for its production of uranium, Rio Algom (ROM-T) is steadily earning a reputation as a major producer of copper.Last year, while addressing shareholders at the company’s annual …

After a startup period of less than a month, the Bougrine mine in Tunisia, has begun cranking out zinc and lead at commercial levels.The mine’s owner, Breakwater Resources (BWR-T), reports that mill t…