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Richfield Ventures co-founder Dirk Tempelman-Kluit.

AME BC unveils its honour roll for 2011

The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) has announced the 2011 recipients of its annual awards. The AME BC recognizes individuals or teams for significant contributions to the mineral exploration industry in B.C.,…


Adriana joins the Wuhan clan

Adriana Resources’ (ADI-V) shares are back up after dropping 15% on Dec. 19 as the company reported that it’s partnering with Wisco International Resources to develop the Lac Otelnuk and December Lake iron ore properties in Nunavik, Que….


Smash Minerals and Prosperity Goldfields to merge

When Adrian Fleming, co-founder of the wildly successful Underworld Resources, listened to a presentation at his Vancouver office in November last year from Prosperity Goldfields’ (PPG-V) chief geologist Quinton Hennigh about a prospect in…


Trevali opens the Halfmile mine

Trevali Mining (tv-t) has kicked off the New Year by transitioning from a development-stage company to a producer by starting up the Halfmile polymetallic massive sulphide project near Bathurst, N.B.  


Brixton cuts mega-intercept in BC

Vancouver – Brixton Metals (BBB-V) has pulled a whopper of an intercept from the Thorn project in northwest British Columbia, hitting 95 metres grading 904 grams per tonne silver equivalent from near surface.


Prophecy Platinum starts winter drill program at Wellgreen

Burwash Landing, Yukon – Fifteen km off the paved Alaska Highway in southwestern Yukon, the Wellgreen nickel-copper-PGM project sits largely as it has since 1973, when Hudson-Yukon Mining abandoned underground mining there after one year of…


Mine expansion approved at Huckleberry

The board of Huckleberry Mines, in which Imperial Metals (III-T) holds a 50% stake and a consortium of Asian companies (Materials Corp., Marubeni Corp., Dowa Mining Co. and Furukawa Co.) owns the remainder, has approved a plan to extend the…


Venture ends 2011 at under 1,500 points

The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index managed a modest year-end rally of 77.27 points over the holiday-spanning December 21-30 trading period, bringing the index to a year-end close of 1,484.66 points. In comparison, at the end of 2010 the…


Independence Gold advances 19 properties in B.C., Yukon

With $15 million in the till, newly listed Independence Gold (IGO-V) is looking to recreate past success in British Columbia and the Yukon searching for gold and silver. The company was spun out of Randy Turner’s former Silver Quest Resources…


Xstrata works to expand Canadian footprint

After a decade of expansion through mergers and acquisitions, diversified Swiss miner Xstrata (XTA-L) is turning to organic growth to provide its next generation of mines and to increase production through the expansion of others.


Brigus grows Black Fox

Brigus Gold (BRD-T, BRD-X) has added to its gold resource at the Black Fox complex in Timmins, Ont., and reported an initial resource estimate exceeding half a million oz. gold for its 147 and Contact zones. 



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