Editorial: Toil and trouble (September 24, 2008)
The week ended Sept. 20, the 38th trading week of 2008, was one for the financial history books.Even veteran ma…
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Romarco continues to expand Haile mineralization
Romarco Minerals (R-V) has released some strong gold intercepts from the Haile open pit mine in South Carolina. …
Romarco expands Haile resource
Romarco Minerals (R-V, RTRAF-O) has nearly doubled resources at the past-producing Haile gold mine in South Carolina, prompting the company to change its mine plan design to 7,000 tons per day from 4,…
Niblack defines resource at Alaskan VMS project (September 22, 2008)
VANCOUVER–With an exploration adit finally complete and underground drilling under way, Niblack Mining (NIB-V, NBLKF-O) released the first resource estimate for its namesake volcanogenic massive sulp…
Redhawk ramps up Copper Creek resource
Vancouver – Redhawk Resources’ (RDK-V) drilling efforts in the Arizona sun are paid off with a 60% boost to the cop…
Niblack defines resource at Alaskan VMS project (September 10, 2008)
Vancouver – With an exploration adit finally complete and underground drilling underway, Niblack Mining (NIB-V) rel…
Tower Hill falls on Livengood intercepts
Vancouver The Livengood property continues to return long, low grade intercepts for International Tower Hill Mine…
Romarco expands Haile resource to 1.5 million oz. gold
Romarco Minerals (R-V, RTRAF-O) has nearly doubled resources at the Haile gold mine in South Carolina, prompting th…
NovaGold sells Ambler; mulls future asset sales
Now that troubled NovaGold Resources (NG-T) has found a buyer for the last of its non-core assets, the company says…
Nevada-focused Victoria, Gateway, agree to merger
VANCOUVER — Victoria Gold (VIT-V, VITFF-O) will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Gateway Gold (GTQ-T, GWYGF-O) in a friendly merger that will produce a Nevada-focused explorer with one advanc…
Nichols Ranch study upbeat
A preliminary economic assessment for Uranerz Energy’s (URZ-T, URZ-X) Nichols Ranch uranium project in Wyoming’s Powder River basin suggests building an in-situ operation that could produce nearly 3.3…
Editorial: It’s closin’ time
Mine closings and layoffs. Yes, with metal prices pulling back sharply this past half year, we’ve finally reached that painful inflection point in the commodity cycle where mine suspensions and closin…