Athabasca Basin attracts uranium explorers
Vancouver — The Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan and Alberta is luring more and more junior companies eager to explore the potential for new uranium discoveries.
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Ashton, Soquem prove up Renard cluster at Foxtrot property
Camp Lagopede, Foxtrot, Que. — It has long been speculated that those diamonds that have surfaced randomly and unexpectantly in the last couple of centuries across portions of the U.S., at the southern margins of glaciation, must have had their s…
Patricia, Richmont update Island Gold resource
Vancouver — An independent resource estimate at
Crystallex pumps up Cristinas reserve (November 29, 2004)
Drilling and a revision of the economic cutoff grade have combined to increase the reserve and resource figures at the Las Cristinas gold project in Bolivar state, Venezuela.
Abacus expands Afton project
Vancouver — Halfway through a second phase of drilling at the Afton project in south-central British Columbia,
Chap adds Swedish silver (November 29, 2004)
N. Star active at Malartic
Following a property deal with
Fjordland extends Megabuck copper-gold zone
Vancouver – Another significant gold and copper interval has been intersected from surface at the Megabuck zone on…
Alcan plans closures, job cuts (November 26, 2004)
Montreal-based aluminum giant Alcan (AL-T) plans to close three European facilities as part of a restructuring plan…
Gold Fields scores a late blow
South Africa’s Competition Appeal Court has ruled that Harmony Gold (HMY-N) cannot use any Gold Fields (GFI-N) shar…
High grades expand El Manto
Vancouver – Drilling continues to extend the El Manto zone in three directions on Oremex’s (ORM-V) Tejamen silver p…
Anaconda bulk sample encouraging
Anaconda Gold (ANX-V) has produced 1,045 oz. gold from a 6,337-tonne bulk sample taken at its Pine Cove project, 6…