Uranium pot stirs in Australia
Perth, Western Australia — In the early 1970s, Australia seemed like a new force in the global uranium industry: in the span of a few years, explorers Down Under were able to prove up 26% of the worl…
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Swayze, Shining Tree recapture ray of limelight
On geological maps of northeastern Ontario, the Kenogamissi batholith sits like a giant blister on the heel of the Abitibi greenstone belt, interrupting the northeast-southwest flow of the prolific be…
Juniors climb on strong Metal Prices
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Joy sneaks back into the picture
Booming commodities markets look durable…
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
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