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Uranium scare forces shutdown

Twenty miners reported illness following exposure to uranium-contaminated water while showering at the Ranger mine, 220 km east of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory.



Gold royalty likely to be shelved (April 05, 2004)

The government of South Africa is expected to scrap a proposed 3% royalty on revenue from gold mining companies with operations in the country. The industry has warned that the royalty would force them to close mines and lay off workers.


Tiffany joins Utah mining protest

New York, N.Y.-based jewelry giant Tiffany & Co. recently took out a full-page advertisement in the Washington Post protesting the proposed Rock Creek copper-silver mine in northern Idaho.


A view of the Zone 1 area at the Maoling gold prospect in China, in which Mundoro Mining can earn a 79% interest. The buildings in the foreground are the beginnings of a plant facility started by the Chinese before Mundoro's involvement.

Mundoro, Stornoway among best bets: analyst

The following is the second in a series of articles on stock recommendations by a select group of mining analysts and newsletter writers who monitor the junior mining sector. This week, we hear from Jim Mustard, a Vancouver-based analyst with Hayw…


An area stripped by garimpeiros at the Las Cristinas property in Bolivar State, Venezuela. About 10,000 independent miners swarmed the property as gold prices recovered.

Las Cristinas legal fight intensifies

Vannessa Ventures (VVV-V) is continuing its legal battle to regain rights to Las Cristinas, a bulk-tonnage gold deposit in the Kilometre 88 gold district of southeastern Venezuela, even as Crystallex International


Another death at LaRonde

Another worker has been killed at Agnico-Eagle Mines‘ (AGE-T) LaRonde gold operation in northwestern Quebec.







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