Joy sneaks back into the picture
Booming commodities markets look durable…
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Base metals gain
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Mexgold cuts bonanza grades
Vancouver — New exploration drifts on the Villalpando-Poniente vein have yielded bonanza gold and silver grades from channel sampling some 100 metres from surface on
Cullinan turns 100
In November 2003, De Beers announced that its flagship Premier mine in South Africa would be renamed the Cullinan diamond mine in celebration of the mine’s centenary. The mine once yielded the Cullina…
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Messina cuts zinc
In step-out drilling on its Boomerang base metal discovery in Newfoundland,
Newmont to spend $6m in search of Holloway mill feed
The last thing a miner wants during a gold boom is a starving mill. Yet that’s exactly what
Better times as UME bites a fiscal bullet
Calgary-based
Production shortfalls, exploration success for Queenstake
Elko, Nev. — During the year and a half following
Educating Africans about AIDS
A health program has been set up in Guinea to educate rural male miners about the dangers inherent in “marrying” women impulsively and for brief periods….
Daily Metal Prices (March 07, 2005)
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