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Toronto-listed Adex Mining will carry out advanced exploration of its Potts Falls gold project in Guyana. Auger and diamond drilling, as well as trenching, will be performed to follow up the results o…

Fifty-eight years after my first arrival in Kirkland Lake, Ont., I returned this past July to enjoy Blue Diamond Anniversary Week. In 1936, the first government-owned post office was yet to appear. A …

Metals producer Rio Algom (TSE) has bought all the shares in NCO Mines, which holds a royalty interest in production from the Polaris lead-zinc mine. NCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of North Canadian O…

Jiri Strnad appointed advisor.

Following the recent takeover by American Barrick Resources (TSE), the board of directors of Lac Minerals (TSE) is changing. Peter Munk, chairman and chief operating officer of Barrick, and Robert Smi…

A soil geochemical survey conducted by Eden Roc Minerals (TSE) has uncovered several gold anomalies in a 9-by-12-km area north of the company’s Anuiri mine in Ivory Coast, West Africa. More than 22,00…

Recovery of gold from a surface pillar at the old Siscoe mine property near Val d’Or, Que., is estimated to be more than 2,000 oz., Mines Dynacor (ME) says. Drilling and channeling this summer in the …

Vancouver-based Western Copper Holdings (TSE) has acquired 4.6 million common shares of Thermal Exploration from Queenston Mining (TSE). As a consideration, Western Copper has issued to Queenston 600,…

Victor Tanaka appointed senior vice-president of exploration.

Robert McRae appointed director.

Eric Lasalle appointed vice-president of corporate relations.

Multi-national De Beers Consolidated Mines is operating an exploration program on the Yamba Lake property in the Lac de Gras region of the Northwest Territories. The international diamond company can …