Australia, NZ & South Pacific

MICHELAGOA traditional Chinese ceremony in July 2005 marks the transfer of the bacterial oxidation plant in the gold-mining town of Laizhou, Shandong province, to Aussie miner, Michelago. The pillars in the background represent wisdom. And the women are holding trays of flowers, each with a pair of scissors to cut the opening ribbon. The BacOx plant, the largest of its kind in China, processes third-party concentrates at a rate of about 150,000 oz. gold annually and is key to an impending merger between Toronto-based Golden China Resources and Michelago.

Golden China claws its way to production

A little known company that traces its roots to Hong Kong, is listed in Toronto, and is about to merge with an Australian firm that holds Chinese assets, has ambitions to become the largest foreign pr…




SXR plans Aussie Honeymoon

Ambitious uranium developer SXR Uranium One (SXR-T, SXRFF-O) has given the go-ahead at its Honeymoon in situ-leach …




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Boddington gets the green light

On care and maintenance since the last of the oxide reserves were mined out at the end of 2001, the Boddington gold mine in Australia received the go-ahead earlier this year for a US$1.35-US$1.5 billi…





One of many local, small-scale gold panners in the area surrounding Mindoro Resources' Agata gold project in northern Mindanao, Philippines.

Mindoro stays the course in the Philippines

Vancouver — Philippines-focused metals explorer Mindoro Resources (MIO-V, MNODF-O) has undertaken an ambitious program of drill-testing on several prospects in its large portfolio of precious and bas…


A haul truck exits a portal at Brilliant Mining's 25%-owned Lanfranchi nickel mine in Western Australia's Kambalda region.

Brilliant cuts wide high-grade nickel at Lanfranchi

Vancouver — Definition drilling on the Winner orebody at Brilliant Mining’s (BMC-V) Lanfranchi joint venture in Western Australia has delivered significant intervals of high-grade nickel mineralizati…


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