Two new discoveries last year by Toronto-based junior River Gold Mines (RIV-T) near its Eagle River high-grade gold mine near Wawa, Ont., have allowed the company to add 136,500 oz. to its reserve bas…
Kniba, Mali — If West Africa has been the gold industry’s elephant country in the past decade, it is the Senegal-Mali shear zone where the biggest trophies have been bagged.The biggest, certainly, …
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P-TSX composite index rose steadily over the Feb. 25-March 2 report period, ending 170.7 points higher at 8,808 despite a 1.5% drop at the period’s end. The gold index m…
Vancouver — Tenke Mining (TNK-T) will sell 3 million shares to a syndicate of underwriters in return for $8.25 million, some of which will be used to explore the Vicuna copper-gold-silver project in …
In spite of some significant intersections in recent drilling, South African mining house Gold Fields (GFI-N) has turned down its option on the Miyabi project in the Lake Victoria goldfields of Tanzan…
Armed with nearly 83,000 metres of drilling in 296 holes, Apollo Gold (APG-T) has tabled an initial reserve estimate for the Black Fox gold project, near Timmins, Ont.Based on a gold price cutoff of U…
Ghana was once known as “the gold coast of Africa,” and, with annual production of 2.3 million oz., the country remains the second-largest gold-producing nation on the continent.With the recent upswin…
Geologists are a rugged bunch, usually working without many of the amenities we commonly take for granted and in places where most of us would fear to tread. Well, that’s true of most geologists. Then…
Montevideo, Uruguay — One man’s poison has proved to be another man’s meat in Uruguay, thanks to Australian ingenuity, persistence, and good timing.Uruguay Mineral Exploration (UME-V) has not only tr…
Vancouver — Southern Rio Resources (SNZ-V) has tabled encouraging assay results following exploration drilling on the 3Ts project in central British Columbia.The program tested several targets on the…
American regulators have filed a civil suit against Ronald V. Markham, a promoter described by securities regulators on several continents as “the ultimate con man.”A report by Brent Mudry in Canada S…
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, March 2 (change from Feb. 24 in brackets):MetalStock(tonnes)ChangeAluminium1393675(+8…
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