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PGE potential in Minnesota's Wabigoon subprovince.

Minnesota’s PGE potential

Exploration for polymetallic deposits, including platinum group elements, in Minnesota has traditionally focused on mafic intrusions of the Mesoproterozoic Duluth Complex, as it contains known occurre…


Tin production disrupted in Australasia

(The following excerpt from The Commodity Refiner, a monthly publication of Barclays Capital Research, provides an overview of the international tin market.)Improvements in demand are evident in the t…


Diamonds deliver for London’s Rio Tinto

The diamond group of Rio Tinto (RTP-N) performed strongly in the first half of 2003, driven by higher prices and the selloff from inventories that had built up at the Argyle operation in the latter pa…



Monterrico puts number on Henry’s Hill

London-listed Monterrico Metals has received its first independent resource estimate for the Henry’s Hill copper deposit, part of the Rio Blanco project in northern Peru.The estimate, by Snowden Minin…


A view of the Martinez pit, looking west, with several veins of the system exposed in the highwall. This year Metallic has excavated a decline at Martinez to evaluate these veins and prepare for possible mining.

Metallic finds new shoot at Esmeralda

Drilling at the Esmeralda gold propery in southwestern Nevada has revealed a new high-grade mineralized shoot in the Prospectus vein structure.The 8-hole array, part of an underground exploration prog…


Canico expands Ona-Puma project

Canico Resource (CNI-T) has dramatically boosted the inferred resource estimate for its Ona and Puma nickel laterite deposits in Brazil’s Para state.Based on a cutoff grade of 1.5% nickel over a mini…


Wheaton bags $80m

Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) has entered into an $80-million bought-deal financing.Griffiths McBurney & Partners is leading a syndicate of underwriters, including BMO Nesbitt Burns, Canaccord Capita…



Robert William Boyle

Obituary: Robert William Boyle

Robert William Boyle, a renowned geochemist, author, lecturer, and member of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, has died. He was 83.Boyle was born on a farm near Wallaceburg, a small town in southweste…


Producer and Dealer Prices (August 18, 2003)

Antimony: Mid-mkt US$2,300/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$3.00/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.70/lb.Cobalt: Recent trades US$9.95-10.30/lb.Copper: Comex Sept. US$0.7890/lb.Indium: Indium Corp., ingot, US$180/kg.Irid…


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