A Canadian mine opening that attracts two cabinet ministers, a raft of federal and territorial politicians, aboriginal leaders, top mining executives from Down Under, a planeload of reporters, and a c…
The final five holes of the fall drilling program have expanded the tonnage potential of the NW Snap Lake dyke at the Camsell Lake property in the Northwest Territories.The drilling has been suspended…
Hoping to imitate its neighbor’s success, Pinewood Resources (PNW-V) is carrying out an airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey at its Afridi Lake diamond project, 320 km northeast of Yellowknife…
While exploration activity may have cooled in Labrador, across the Strait of Belle Isle in Newfoundland many juniors and majors are once again targetting base metal and gold prospects.What follows is …
Diamond deposits begin forming 150-200 km below the thickest portion of the earth’s crust, where the right combination of cool temperatures and high pressures converts carbon not into the more common …
They said it couldn’t be done. They said caribou herds and other wildlife would be at risk. They warned that fish habitat would be lost, that lakes would be drained, and that the aboriginal way of lif…
Canada’s Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development has appointed privately held Diamonds International Canada (Dican) as its official diamond valuator for the determination of federal and …
Drilling by Rio Narcea Gold Mines (RNG-T) has extended the known mineralization at the El Valle open-pit mine in northern Spain.Alberto Lavandeira, the company’s president, spoke at the Mining Investm…
Recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show that executives in several companies are taking advantage of the market downturn to pick up cheap shares in their respective compan…
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Oct. 20/98 (change from Oct. 13 in brackets):MetalStocks (tonnes)Change…
In the early 1990s, geologist Ken Snyder stood on a windswept hilltop near this old mining town and told Pierre Lassonde and Seymour Schulich, founders of royalty sisters Franco-Nevada Mining (FN-T) a…
Another quarter-point drop in interest rates by the Federal Reserve bolstered the Dow Jones industrial average for the report period ended Oct. 20. The average climbed 567.71 points, or 7.2%, to close…
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