2004

Vancouver — Good news follows bad for Miramar Mining‘s (MAE-T) wholly owned Hope Bay gold project, near Bathurst Inlet in Nunavut: little more than three weeks after being notified of a delay in permitting for the Doris North d…

A grassroots volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) discovery in northern Quebec has caught the eye of Noranda (NRD-T).

The US$654-million Collahuasi Rosario mine in Chile, co-owned by Falconbridge (FL-T) and Anglo American (AAUK-Q), is producing copper ahead of schedule and under budget.

Nobody actually said it would be easy. But they sure implied that consolidating the mining industry was a bit of a downhill run.

Drilling has proved that the gold deposits at Etruscan Resources‘ (EET-T) Youga property in Burkina Faso are bigger and richer than previously thought.

Vancouver — StrataGold (SGV-V) has optioned the 14.2-sq.-km Tassawini gold property in northwestern Guyana.

Anatolia Minerals (ANOU-T) has defined considerable gold following reverse-circulation drilling at its pler project in east-central Turkey.

Crowflight Minerals (CML-V) is geting a chance to join the ranks of nickel producers by acquiring Falconbridge‘s (FL-T) Bucko resource block, in the Thompson nickel belt of Manitoba.

The trading period ended June 28 was punctuated by the early transfer of power in Iraq from U.S. authorities to an interim Iraqi government. The move sent energy stocks lower while, more broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 37.98 poin…

The following is an excerpt from the ninth edition of Mining Explained, published by The Northern Miner.

SouthernEra Resources (SUF-T) has exchanged more than 10.5 million of its shares for 3.7 million shares in Johannesburg-listed platinum miner Messina.

QGX (QGX-V) has reported impressive assays from 17 holes drilled on its Golden Hills project in western Mongolia.