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Trapped between a rock and a hard place about sums up the fate of the Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper-cobalt project in Labrador. Hopes that the moribund project might move forward this year were dashed wh…

Preliminary drilling at the Santo Nino gold-silver project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state has returned encouraging results for Cambior (CBJ-T).Five core holes were sunk 200-400 metres apart along a 1.4-k…

Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Jan. 11/00 (change from Jan. 4 in brackets):Aluminium768,350(-6,150)…

Agnico-Eagle Mines1Altius Min.1Altoro Gold19Anglogold11Artgallery-live14Ashanti Goldfields3, 11Aurizon Mins6Barrick Gold11…

The Spanish government has granted Orvana Minerals (ORV-T) title to the Escalada exploration concession.Situated in the country’s southwestern region, the 80-sq.-km concession is near the Rio Tinto, C…

Hoping to repeat the success of their neighbour, Band-Ore Resources (BAN-T) and Southern Africa Minerals (SAF-T) have each acquired a half-interest in a 89.5-sq.-km land package on the eastern side of…

Unhappy at the direction Ashanti Goldfields (ASL-N) is taking to solve its financial woes, four groups of disgruntled shareholders have filed proceedings with the High Court in Ghana for a special sha…

Funds from a US$7-million private placement will enable Chief Consolidated Mining (CFCM-Q) to begin underground drilling and development at the Trixie gold mine in central Utah.The New York-based juni…

Every year, severe diarrhea caused by rotaviruses kill an estimated 870,000 children worldwide, but vaccines delivered by tiny gold particles could help combat this intestinal disease and save lives.T…