Eldorado monitors Ovacik, hopeful at Kisladag
A strong third-quarter performance by the Ovacik gold mine in Turkey augurs well for Eldorado Gold (ELD-T), which holds Kisladag and several other advanced-stage gold projects in the country.Ovacik, w…
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FPO De Beers looks to trim costs at Victor
Despite mixed results from a study of the Victor diamond project in the James Bay Lowlands of Ontario, De Beers Canada says it intends to proceed with a prefeasibility study.Few details of the scoping…
NAP dips back into the red
Startup problems at the newly expanded Lac des les mine in northern Ontario, combined with lower realized palladium prices, resulted in a third-quarter loss of $2.7 million for North American Palladi…
Private investment in gold
Net retail investment in gold between 1993 and 2000 ranged between 240 and 390 tonnes per year (excluding a 117-tonne anomaly in 2000), according to a study by Gold Fields Mineral Services.The report,…
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Ontario funding assists APGO
The Ontario government will spend $25,000 to help the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO) get off the ground as it begins to register members.The association became the governi…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (December 03, 2001)
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Central Asia, Caucasia in transition
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, most countries in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States have tried to reintegrate with the world economy. However, 12 years later, some of t…
Edward Chee-Ping Mark
Edward Chee-Ping Mark, former chief metallurgist with Rio Algom, has died. He was 69.Born and raised in a small village in China, Mr. Mark emigrated to Canada in 1954 to attend university. He graduate…
GSB cuts may be counterproductive
Reports from British Columbia imply the new government of Gordon Campbell may be considering wholesale cuts to the province’s Geological Survey Branch.The first public hint of this proposal came in la…
Daily Metal Prices (December 03, 2001)
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Matamec cuts gold at Sakami
Val d’Or, Que.-based Matamec Explorations (MAT-V) has released preliminary results from a second round of drilling at the Sakami gold project, 80 km southeast of Radisson, Que.The 2,000-metre drilling…