US markets down week of Aug. 9-13
Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the U.S. economy is going to get worse before it gets better, up from 53%…
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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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Another smooth deal for Kinross
While plenty of Canadians took Aug. 2 as a holiday, that wasn’t the case for many of the folks at the head offices of Kinross Gold and Red Back Mining in Toronto and Vancouver, who were busy putting t…
Copper mine output up 19% over past decade: ICSG
The Lisbon-based International Copper Study Group (ICSG) has released its 2010 Statistical Yearbook covering world copper supply and demand data for the period 2000-2009. The following is an edited ve…