Richfield redefines Blackwater
VANCOUVER– Richfield Ventures (RVC-V) continues to expand the Blackwater gold project in central British Columbia, with another round of long gold intercepts.
Volume 96 Number 26 - Aug 16 - 22, 2010
What’s in store for Endeavour?
SITE VISIT GUANAJUATO, MEXICO — Endeavour Silver (EDR-T) has a plan. So far, the plan has worked well: in six years the company has gone from an upstart explorer to…
TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE -August 3-6
The Civic Holiday-shortened Aug. 3-6 period saw the TSX composite index rise 18 points to 11,799.97. The index was helped along by stronger metal and oil prices as crude marched to above the US$81 a b…
TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE -August 3-6
The S&P/TSX Venture composite index made modest gains over the Civic Holidayshortened Aug. 3-6 period to close up 38.12 points at 1,465.48. Daily trading volumes were average at 100 million.
U.S. MARKETS -August 2-6
Markets rose during the Aug. 2-6 trading period, with some of the major mining companies making some significant gains and gold rising back over the US$1,200-per-oz. level.
Moscow’s ARMZ starts marketing itself
Like the Anna character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I who sings ” Getting to Know You” as she tries to build relationships with the wives and children of the King of Siam, Vadi…
Apology to East Asia Minerals and Michael Hawkins (August 16, 2010)
In the story regarding East Asia Minerals published in last week’s paper edition and online, we incorrectly stated that East Asia Minerals had not disclosed to its shareholders that a large portion of…
New Livengood PEA doubles mine life, production
VANCOUVER — International Tower Hill Mines’ (ITH-T) Livengood project near Fairbanks, Alaska, could produce half a million ounces of gold annually for 21 years, according to a new and improved prelim…
First Bauxite eyes production in Guyana
VANCOUVER — First Bauxite (FBX-V) has reached a key milestone in its path to becoming a producer with the release of a positive feasibility study for its Bonasika bauxite project in Guyana that comes…
El Gallo shines for US Gold
Fifteen new drill holes at US Gold’s (UXG-T, UXG-X) El Gallo silver project in Mexico have extended mineralization to the south of the main zone by up to 50 metres with the best drill hole encounterin…
DRC gov’t wants to liquidate First Quantum’s Kolwezi
The battle between First Quantum Minerals (FM-T) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) government continues to escalate.
Corex cuts gold at Santana (August 16, 2010)
Vancouver — Corex Gold (CGE-V) is pulling good widths of gold-bearing oxide rock from the ground at its Santana project in Mexico, as two drills work to expand and link up several gold zones at the e…