CVRD secures control of Canico
Vancouver Diversified Brazilian miner Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) has acquired 42.1 million shares of Canic…
South America
Rosebel resumes milling (November 25, 2005)
Mill operations at Cambior’s (CBJ-T, CBJ-X) flagship Rosebel open-pit gold mine in Suriname have resumed at about 9…
Gold Fields sees upside in bid for Bolivar
Vancouver As part of a growth strategy to expand offshore production, Gold Fields (GFI-N) plans to pay US$330 mil…
Cambior sinks as Rosebel springs a leak
Milling operations have been temporarily suspended at Cambior’s (CBJ-T, CBJ-X) flagship Rosebel open-pit gold mine …
Northern Peru Copper drills hot hole at Galeno (November 18, 2005)
Vancouver – Continuing its trend of pulling long mineralized intersections, Northern Peru Copper (NOC-T, NPUCF-O) d…
Canico finds new CVRD bid less hostile (November 11, 2005)
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO-N) has upped its offer for nickel developer Canico Resources (CNI-T) and Canico’s b…
Eldorado’s production slips as focus shifts to mine construction
Vancouver While gold production was down for Eldorado Gold (ELD-T, EGO-Q) during the third quarter ended Sept. 30…
Hecla faces Venezuelan taxman (October 28, 2005)
Idaho-based Hecla Mining (HL-N) will face an accounting review by Venezuela’s tax agency Seniat, after claims of ir…
Iamgold tallies Quimsacocha (October 28, 2005)
Roscoe Postle Associates has tagged Iamgold’s (IMG-T IAG-X) still-growing Quimsacocha gold-copper-silver deposit in…
CVRD to put new copper deposit into production
The board of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO-N) has approved a US$232-million budget to develop the 118 copper depo…
Minera Andes gets feasibility thumbs up on San Jos
Vancouver – The long awaited feasibility study on Minera Andes’ (MAI-V) San Jos gold-silver deposit, in southern A…
Partners size up Collahuasi’s Rosario Oeste (October 24, 2005)
Some 4,658 metres worth of drilling in 2005, coupled with 6,248 metres in 12 holes in the early 1990s has led to an…