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POLYUS GOLDPolyus Gold's flagship open-pit Olympiada gold mine, 600 km north of the city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. Norilsk Nickel acquired Polyus as a subsidiary in 2002, and in March of this year Polyus was relaunched as a public company.

Polyus Gold plans ambitious expansion

Anchorage, Alaska — Apparently at least one Russian oligarch isn’t too worried about being forced out of the country or arrested. Vladimir Potanin is so confident of his position that he’s hosting th…


VIVIAN DANIELSONWestern Keltic Mines' vice-president of exploration, Peter Holbek (centre, yellow), explains the geology of the Kutcho Creek massive sulphide project during a site visit to Dease Lake, northern B.C.

More reward than risk at Kutcho Creek

Dease Lake, B.C. — The Kutcho Creek volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project located 100 km east of this Northern community made it to prefeasibility in the mid-1980s, only to be put on the back b…


ABER DIAMONDThis past winter's shortened ice road season in the Arctic delayed the transport of large items, and forced De Beers to fly others in at Gahcho Kue at a higher cost. Here a 24-wheeler hauls a 200-tonne payload compartment of a much larger truck across a winter road to the Diavik diamond mine, 300 km northeast of Yellowknife, N.W.T. Diavik Diamond Mines is owned 40% by Aber Diamond Mines, with the remainder held by Rio Tinto.

Gahcho Ku on path to production in 2012

With the Snap Lake underground mine in the Northwest Territories and the Victor open-pit operation in northern Ontario already under construction, De Beers, the world’s leading diamond player, is look…


Full Metal cuts silver in Alaska

Vancouver — Full Metal Minerals’ (FMM-V, FLMTF-O) initial drill hole on the LWM prospect at its 40 Mile property in eastern Alaska has intersected a near-surface interval of silver-rich massive sulph…


James Whyte

Zinc recycling in the North (October 30, 2006)

Doubtless helped by the price of zinc, two former Arctic zinc producers, both operated by Cominco, are getting second looks by junior explorers bent on showing that resources left behind when the mine…


STEPHEN STAKIWDrilling a diatreme-hosted gold target on Midway Gold's Spring Valley project in northwestern Nevada.

Midway drilling pushes Spring Valley north

Vancouver — Drilling by Midway Gold (MDW-V, MDWGF-O) on the North Hill target at its Spring Valley project in northwestern Nevada has hit a new zone of gold mineralization.






ANTHONY VACCAROA welder at work at Ivanhoe Mines' Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia.

Rio Tinto throws weight behind Oyu Tolgoi

Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) wowed the market in mid-October, by laying the groundwork for a partnership with Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) to get its massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in southern Mon…


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