Surigao’s porphyry copper gold potential confirmed
Vancouver – An independent evaluation of last year’s results at Panoro Minerals Surigao joint venture in the Philip…
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Sur American changes tactics at Batoto
Vancouver – After years of focusing on bits and pieces of various styles of gold and copper mineralization on its B…
LionOre to dig at Waterloo
LionOre Mining International (LIM-T) has approved a plan to develop an exploration decline at the Waterloo nickel s…
Vista Gold buying Awak Mas deposit
Vancouver – After five months of tire kicking, Vista Gold (VGZ-T) is writing the cheque to purchase the Awak Mas go…
Goro gets Japanese partners
Sumitomo Metal Mining and Mitsui have forked over US$150 million for a 21% interest in Inco’s (N-T) US$1.9 billion …
Southern Cross tables Goulds resource
Consultants for Southern Cross Resources (SXR-T) have calculated a revised resource figure for the Goulds Dam urani…
Coeur buying Aussie mine silver output
Vancouver – Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N) is buying the silver production and reserves of the Endeavor zinc-lead-silv…
Ivernia warms the printer for Magellan
Ivernia (IVW-T) plans to sell between $65 million and $82.5 million worth newly minted shares to buy the 49% intere…
BHP bid for WMC gets FIRB OK
BHP Billiton’s (BHP-N) white-knight bid for WMC Resources (WMC-N) has received approval from Australia’s Foreign In…
Harmony Gold bounces Bendigo Mining
Harmony Gold Mining (HMY-N) has sold off its remaining 11.6% stake in Aussie miner Bendigo Mining for A$1.10 per sh…
Croesus reverses course
Some better-than-expected infill-drilling results have prompted Australian-based Croesus Mining to go ahead with a …
St Barbara grabs Gwalia gold (March 21, 2005)
Perth, Australia-based St Barbara Mines has emerged as the winning bidder for the gold division of failed miner Son…