2003

Montreal-based Semafo (SMF-T) ended the third quarter of 2003 with a $3-million loss (4 per share), largely because of intense rain at the Kiniero mine in Guinea.Production fell to 9,862 oz. in the q…

African copper producer First Quantum Minerals (FM-T) has inked a deal that will see it take up grassroots exploration in the Chilean copper fields.The deal with private Chilean company MN Ingenieros …

Vancouver — Perth-based Tanami Gold has picked up the prospective Coyote deposit, 150 km north of Callie in Western Australia.Coyote is part of the Western Tanami project, which had been held by Angl…

Buyers overtook sellers over the Nov. 19-25 report period, pushing the Toronto Stock Exchange composite index up 84.95 points to a close of 7,822.34.Gold producers were not so lucky, as physical price…

Initial results from drilling at the 240-sq.-km Taranga exploration permit in Burkina Faso, West Africa, have failed to match higher gold grades obtained in earlier sampling by Jilbey Gold Exploration…

Shares in Montreal-based Cambior (CBJ-T) shot up 22, or more than 5%, to 4.40 in early trading in Toronto on Nov. 25 after the intermediate gold producer announced that it had raised $40.9 million.Th…

Trenching by Appalaches Resources (APP-V) on the Mont-de-l’Aigle property, in Quebec’s Gasp Peninsula, has exposed the recently discovered Turcotte showing for more than 100 metres while doubling the…

Potential lawsuits by 22 mining companies, including Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold and Inco, against the Indonesian government could reach a staggering US$31.5 billion, according to a government spok…

Vancouver — Drilling success at Planet Exploration’s (PXI-V) Sidace Lake property has prompted Goldcorp (G-T) to pick up a majority stake in two more properties in Ontario’s Red Lake camp.The low-cos…