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On the heels of last week’s positive trading period, TSX Venture Exchange-listed companies continued to gain ground as the gold price climbed higher, owing to a weaker U.S. dollar. The S&P-TSX Venture Exchange index continued its climb from Sept.

Strateco (RSC-V) and partner GeoNova Explorations have intersected significant gold on their jointly held Discovery project, 45 km northwest of Lebel-sur-Quvillon, Que.

Gold Fields (GFI-N) has added $880,000 to the exploration budget for the Committee Bay gold project, northeast of Baker Lake, N.W.T. The project is a joint venture with Committee Bay Resources (CBR-V).

We were originally asked by the organizers of a recent aluminum conference to address the topic “Aluminum: can momentum be sustained?” However, the reality is that the previous upward momentum has stalled. Moreover, there is a significant amount o…

Drilling by Guinor Gold (GNR-T) at the Lero mine in eastern Guinea has encountered new zones of gold mineralization both below two existing pits and along strike from known resources.

Strenghtening gold prices, coupled with the release of excellent drill results from the Kupol project in Russia’s Far East, propelled shares in Bema Gold (BGO-T) more than 15% higher on Sept. 23 to $2.84.

In play since mid-June, Noranda (NRD-T) has finally whittled down its list of potential suitors to Chinese parastatal enterprise China Minmetals.…

Tahera Diamond‘s (TAH-T) Jericho diamond project in Nunavut took another step toward reality after the Kitikmeot Inuit Association formally signed an Inuit impact-benefit agreement.

Owing to lower-than-expected gold and silver production, Reno-based Metallic Ventures Gold (MVG-T) has suspended mining at its Esmeralda project in northwestern Nevada.