Oromin gets more time to drill Senegal gold project
Vancouver Oromin Explorations (OLE-V) is confident it will find more gold on its Senegal concessions, after the g…
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Goldbelt ups Inata resource for June feasibility study (March 22, 2007)
Goldbelt Resources (GLD-T) has increased its contained gold resource by 37% at its flagship Inata deposit, located …
Caledonia gets resource for Nama project
Caledonia Mining Corporation (CAL-T, CALVF-O, CMCL-L) released its first national instrument 43-101 compliant indic…
Platmin drill holes validating resource
Detailed drilling on targets in the Bushveld igneous complex by Platmin (PPN-T, PPN-L) has confirmed earlier drilli…
Courtroom battles in the Congo
La Quinta Resources (LAQ-V) made big market gains on Wednesday after a court ruling in the Democratic Republic of C…
Uganda ready for the big boys
After watching mining companies flock to its neighbours Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the gove…
Goldbelt to grab Barrick’s West African assets
Vancouver — Goldbelt Resources (GLD-V, GLDRF-O) has entered an agreement to acquire all the exploration assets of Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) in the West African countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and G…
De Beers takes to African skies
In leaving no stone unturned in the search for its next diamond mine, De Beers is using a Zeppelin airship to fly a combination of gravity and magnetic geophysical surveys across the Kalahari sands of…
Editor’s Picks: the Week’s Top Mining Stories
Even as new record, nominal highs for uranium and nickel prices were being set in the week ended Feb. 24, it was organized labour action in Canada’s railyards that grabbed the most focused attention o…
Equinox studies uranium at Lumwana
Equinox Minerals (EQN-T, EQN-A) has entered into a $175-million bought-deal financing agreement to fund the development of its Lumwana copper project in Zambia.
Xstrata, Barrick table new Kabanga resource (March 05, 2007)
It’s a deposit that’s been kicking around for decades, but seems to be getting more respect of late.
Birim Goldfields drills to expand gold zone on Cluster
Montreal-based Birim Goldfields (BGI-T, BRGFF-O) recently started a 9-hole follow-up drill program at the Chert Ridge prospect on its Cluster property in south-central Ghana, where two gold zones have…