EGR, Auspex increase Portuguese gold resource
Partners European Gold Resources (EGI-C)(formerly Montemor Resources) and Auspex Minerals (APJ-V) are making progress at their equally shared Montemor gold project in southwestern Portugal.The gold re…
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MINERAL EXPLORATION — Perseverance pays for Cominco in Yukon
In 1994, Cominco (CLT-T) discovered the ABM polymetallic deposit at its Kudz Ze Kayah property in the southeastern Yukon, confirming the area’s potential for hosting volcanogenic massive sulphide depo…
MINERAL EXPLORATION — Ventures drills base metals targets
Eagle, Alaska — Weak gold prices have induced Ventures Resource (vrs-v) to diversify its exploration activities to include base metals.The company is drilling two lead-zinc-silver properties — Lead …
MINERAL EXPLORATIOIN — Companies take search for buried deposits to new depths
With the aid of gravity geophysics, a large mineralizing system has been discovered at the Converse gold project near the Lone Tree gold mine in northern Nevada’s Battle Mountain trend.The information…
MINERAL EXPLORATION — Mispec hones skills at Jampang — Cigaru area serves as model for exploration
New exploration programs typically face many difficulties, and these are compounded when the area under consideration is extensive and plagued by heavy overburden. However, while the Jampang property …
Vedron tallies resource at Fuller
Surrounded by some of the most productive mines of the Porcupine gold camp, the Fuller property, southeast of Timmins, Ont., yielded only limited amounts of gold from mining efforts in the 1950s and 1…
MINERAL EXPORATION — Drills hit at Raigorodok
A drill program by Central Asia Goldfields (CGZ-M) has returned a 195-metre interval grading 1.5 grams gold per tonne from the Raigorodok North gold project in Kazakstan.The company says this result, …
Manitoba meeting to display NATMAP results
The Manitoba Department of Energy and Mines will hold its annual Mining and Minerals Convention Nov. 20-22, 1997.This year’s convention will present the results of work by the provincial government an…
DIAMOND PAGE — Sonora Diamond sells Klipdam gems
In June and July, Toronto-based Sonora Diamond (SON-T) sold 1,575 carats of diamonds from its Klipdam mine near Kimberley, South Africa, at an average price of US$760 per carat.The diamond sales enabl…
Russia seeks to build lead-zinc processing plant in Siberia
The government of Altai territory, in the Siberian region of Russia, is seeking investors from the West to back a proposed US$1-billion lead-zinc processing plant.The metallurgical plant would process…
PRODUCER AND DEALER PRICES (September 15, 1997)
Aluminium: LME settlements US$1,587.50 per tonne, alloy $1,415 per tonne (Sept. 9/97).Antimony: Composite free market, US$1,850 per tonne (Sept. 8/97).Bismuth: Composite free market US$3.50 per lb. (S…
MINERAL EXPLORATION — Zoning key in pegmatite exploration
As a company that made a habit of concentrating on Precambrian gold deposits and base metal sulphides, Avalon Ventures (AVL-V) is hitting the books to find out more about granitic pegmatites.The compa…