Rubicon, Golden Tag find VG at Red Lake
Drilling at the McCuaig project, in the Red Lake gold district of northwestern Ontario, is providing Rubicon Minerals (RMX-V) and Golden Tag Resources (GOG-V) with a bigger target to explore.The partn…
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PEOPLE (April 08, 2002)
Asia Pacific — John Bovard appointed CEO.Barker — Christopher Wild appointed exploration manager.Diamonds North — Mark Kolebaba appointed president.Dynatec — Bru…
Hecla gets lease at El Callao Block B
Already active in eastern Venezuela, Hecla Mining (HL-M) has received notice from Venezuelan state enterprise Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana (CVG) that it has been awarded an 18-sq.-km lease in the…
Ashton finds third kimberlitic body in Otish Mountains
A new kimberlite belt is emerging in the Otish Mountains region of north-central Quebec, as demonstrated by the discovery of a third kimberlitic body by partners Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) and So…
Newmont drops stake in Lihir for US$84m
In a surprise move, Denver-based Newmont Mining (NEM-N) has sold its 9.7% equity holding in Papua New Guinea miner Lihir Gold (LIHRY-Q) via a block trade to Australian-based Macquarie Equity Capital M…
Prominent Hill’s centre proves barren
Only months after reporting a copper-gold intercept that rivaled the Olympic Dam discovery holes a quarter-century ago, Minotaur Resources has received mixed results from follow-up drilling on the Pro…
Editorial: Cleaning house
In the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum’s new CIMVal Standards and Guidelines for Valuation of Mineral Properties we are seeing the results of an industry that did a lot of self-…
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Suit against Tiomin dismissed
A lawsuit lodged in Kenya against the local subsidiary of Tiomin Resources (TIO-T) has been dismissed.The suit, which sought to prevent development of the Kwale titanium-sands project on the Indian Oc…
Mining matters in Nunavut
The weather reports say that it’s minus 42 in Cambridge Bay, but that won’t keep Patricia Dillon and Patricia Meyer from teaching mining to students in chilly, far-northern Nunavut.Both women are par…
SouthernEra, partners test ATW Mackay Lake
A drilling program at the ATW Mackay Lake diamond property, south of Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories, is testing three geophysical targets. The effort is designed to locate the source of a pr…
NAME CHANGES (April 08, 2002)
Blue Ice Minerals (BLE-V) has changed its name to Monroe Minerals (MMX-V) on a 1-new-for-3-old-share basis.