Toronto-based Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) will commence mining this summer at the Golden Bear heap-leach project in northwestern British Columbia.The junior, which holds an 82% interest in mine-own…
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Mar.3/97 (change from previous week in brackets):Aluminium882,450(-18,800)Copper214,800(-5,250)Lead108,025(-450)Nickel45,618…
In preparation for a bankable feasibility study, to be completed by May, Montreal-based Niocan (NIO-M) is drilling its namesake niobium property in Quebec.The 384-ha property is in the Oka intrusive c…
Montreal-based Lithos (LTS-M) has acquired an option on a Peruvian gold-copper property held by Hebron Fjord Resources (HEF-M).The Salaverry-Copara deposit is known to contain a total resource of 1.5 …
Drilling on the Ban Phuc nickel project in Vietnam has yielded encouraging results for New Zealand-listed Spectrum Resources.The 1,220-metre program was designed to establish the continuity of a massi…
Construction is nearly complete and startup is fast approaching for the Lihir gold mine, on the tiny island of the same name.It will be the largest mine in the world to open in 1997, and when The Nort…
Investors are finally taking notice of Nord Pacific (NORPY-Q), owing to the Albuquerque, N.M.-based junior’s 35% interest in the large Ramu nickel-cobalt deposit in Papua New Guinea (PNG).The deposit …
Partners Southwestern Gold (SWG-T) and Global-Pacific Minerals (CPJ-V) plan to form a joint-venture with the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources of Heilongjiang province to explore four areas in…
Ongoing exploration by Yamana Resources (YRI-T) will test an aeromagnetic anomaly and associated gold mineralization in the northern portion of the company’s Block I contact-of-work (CoW) application,…
A Spokane, Wash.-based company with a Toronto listing has assembled a portfolio of properties stretching from the South American countries of Chile, Argentina and Paraguay to Indonesia and Papua New G…
In the flatlands of New South Wales, Nord Pacific (NORPY-Q) continues to hit high-grade copper mineralization at the Tritton massive sulphide deposit, a 50-50 joint venture with Australian-listed Stra…
The success of the first phase of winter drilling near the Seabee gold mine has provided Claude Resources (CRJ-T) with new exploration targets.Claude owns the Seabee mine, 125 km northeast of La Ronge…
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