Alcan jettisons French asset (April 30, 2007)
Alcan (AL-T, AL-N) is paring down its engineered products branch by selling off its Satma subsidiary to ALMECO Spa of Italy.
2007
Tamerlane sees profit-taking on 214% increase
Tamerlane Ventures (TAM-V, TMLVF-O) has secured an agreement on job creation and business opportunities with one of the three First Nations groups it is dealing with at its Pine Point zinc-lead projec…
Golden Band busy at La Ronge
Vancouver — A preliminary economic assessment evaluating production from Golden Band Resources’ (GBN-V, GBRIF-O) La Ronge gold belt projects, in northern Saskatchewan, has come back positive.
MetalCORP adds moly to mix
Thanks to a little sleuthing through old company and government files plus a bit of follow-up sampling, MetalCORP (MTC-V) has added a substantive molybdenum-silver project near Hemlo, Ont., to its min…
Q1 output off 20% at Casa Berardi
Although Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T, AZK-X) produced 20% less gold in the first quarter of 2007 than planned, the company surpassed its gold grade and mill recovery estimates at its Casa Berardi mine in the…
Ursa Major gets bulk sampling approval
Ursa Major Minerals (UMJ-V, UMJMF-O) has received provincial approval for a bulk-sampling program at its Shakespeare nickel-copper project west of Sudbury, Ont.
Benton gets PGM exploration boost (April 30, 2007)
Stillwater Mining (SWC-N) has agreed to pump $1.6 million into Benton Resources’ (BTC-V) Goodchild nickel-copper-platinum group metal project north of Marathon, Ont., giving Stillwater the option to e…
Letters to the Editor (April 30, 2007)
Flow-through credit wanted
Endurance Gold advances on Pardo
Vancouver — Having recently closed about $2 million in financings, Endurance Gold (EDG-V) has kicked off this year’s exploration effort by mobilizing a geophysical crew to its Pardo project, located …
Metanor brings back Bachelor Lake
SITE VISIT Desmaraisville, Que. — As Yves Gagnon sloshes along the water-filled locomotive tracks of the past-producing Bachelor Lake gold mine here, he pulls something shiny from his pocket. It’s…
KL Gold, Queenston lock up more of Kirkland Lake camp
Queenston Mining (QMI-T, QNMNF-O) and Kirkland Lake Gold (KGI-T, KGI-L) are teaming up again in the Kirkland Lake gold camp of northeastern Ontario.
TSX Venture Exchange April 17-23
With bullion prices rising to an almost one-year high and base metals soaring, the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index turned in a modest 2.1 point gain to close the April 17-23 trading session at a m…