2004

Golds sag despite rising bullion

U.S. stock markets finished little-changed over the report period Nov. 17-23 despite a selloff on Nov. 19 following comments by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on how the U.S. current account deficit might depress the value of the greenbac…


Athabasca Basin attracts uranium explorers

Vancouver — The Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan and Alberta is luring more and more junior companies eager to explore the potential for new uranium discoveries.


An aerial view of the Renard camp in north central Qubec.

Ashton, Soquem prove up Renard cluster at Foxtrot property

Camp Lagopede, Foxtrot, Que. — It has long been speculated that those diamonds that have surfaced randomly and unexpectantly in the last couple of centuries across portions of the U.S., at the southern margins of glaciation, must have had their s…




Abacus expands Afton project

Vancouver — Halfway through a second phase of drilling at the Afton project in south-central British Columbia, Abacus Mining & Exploration (AME-V) continues to cut significant widths of copper-gold mineralization.


Chap adds Swedish silver (November 29, 2004)

Wheaton River Minerals‘ (WRM-T) 75%-owned silver spinoff, Chap Mercantile (SLW-T), has inked a deal to buy all the silver produced from the Zinkgruvan mine in central Sweden.


N. Star active at Malartic

Following a property deal with Barrick Gold (ABX-T), Northern Star Mining (NSM-V) has consolidated a large land package around the formerly producing Malartic Goldfields mine in northwestern Quebec.





High grades expand El Manto

Vancouver – Drilling continues to extend the El Manto zone in three directions on Oremex’s (ORM-V) Tejamen silver p…


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