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Drilling on the Boleo copper-cobalt deposit in Baja California Sur, Mexico, has returned encouraging values from the Saturno open-pit target. Coeur d’Alene Mines (NYSE) is earning a half interest from…

A recent base metal discovery northeast of Thunder Bay is being credited to the Ontario Prospectors Assistance Program (OPAP). According to Bernard Schnieders, the government’s resident geologist for …

Toronto-listed Manhattan Minerals has staked an 11-sq.-km gold property in Chihuahua state, Mexico. The land package comprises several large breccia zones hosted in andesite volcanics. One of the zone…

By the year 2000, the Caribbean and Latin America will provide a market of 600 million persons with purchasing power of US$1 trillion, states a recent issue of CanadaExport. Canadian exports to Latin …

A technical review of the Refugio gold project in Chile is in agreement with the conclusions of the previous feasibility study. The review was carried out by Cypress Amax Minerals (NYSE), the parent o…

Junior Card Lake Resources (CDN) is set to consolidate its shares and change its name. If shareholders approve the move, 10 shares of the company will be exchanged for one share of Franc-Or Resources….

Privately owned Blue Falcon Mines has signed a deal with Development Trust of Zimbabwe whereby it can earn a 49% interest in 1 to 2 million acres of mineral lands held by the Trust. Blue Falcon Presid…

Synthetic rutile has been produced in bench-scale tests on ilmenite concentrates collected from the Natashquan heavy mineral sands property on Quebec’s north shore. Tiomin Resources (ME) developed the…

Free-trade agreements are catching on across Latin America. Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela have been negotiating a trading zone which, once in place, could attract new members such as Peru, Bolivia an…

Conrad Hache appointed president.

James Coleman appointed director.

Barry Dugal appointed director.