News
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NET NIT Fort Frances by Any Other Name
An alert reader, Peter McBride of the Ontario Mining Association, has brought to our attention a misspelling in an…
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NICKEL HEIST Theft Nets $2 Million
POINTE ST. CHARLES, Quebec The CBC reported today that thieves made off with $2 million-worth of nickel from a de…
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EMERALD EXPLORATION NEWS – $2.2-Million Program at Regal Ridge
FINLAYSON LAKE, Northwest Territories This year’s exploration program at the Regal Ridge emerald project will cos…
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GOLD EXPLORATION NEWS New Discovery on Gasp Peninsula
NEW RICHMOND, Quebec It is early days yet, and mineralized boulders do not a mine make, but RESSOURCES APPALACHES…
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NICKEL EXPLORATION NEWS Barrick, Falconbridge Agree in Tanzania
TANZANIA Please take note that the words "nickel" and "Barrick" appear together in the headli…
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GOLD DEVELOPMENT NEWS Equity Financing Possible for Dolores
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico MINEFINDERS CORP. of Toronto could conceivably raise all the capital it needs from equity if ne…
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BASE METAL MINE NEWS Breakwater to Acquire Myra Falls
CAMPBELL RIVER, British Columbia Toronto-based BREAKWATER RESOURCES is acquiring all the outstanding shares of Bo…
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GOLD MINE NEWS Esmeralda Pours First Gold
HAWTHORNE, Nevada The first pour of gold from the Esmeralda project of METALLIC VENTURES GOLD was on Feb. 16. The…
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DRAGLINE NEWS China Buys First Bucyrus Unit
SOUTH MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin BUCYRUS INTERNATIONAL has sold the first large dragline of any make to China. The mode…
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MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS GlobeStar, Barrick, Alcan, Int’l Lima, Tiberon
Toronto-based GLOBESTAR MINING has named Jose Antonio Ruiz as mine manager for the Cerro de Maimon development in t…
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DOING SOME DIGGING Mars Rocks
Since the dawn of time, the other planets in our solar system have been veiled in mystery, none more so than Mars.
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GOLD EXPLORATION NEWS Bathurst Camp Yields Yellow Metal
BATHURST, New Brunswick The Bathurst mining camp, long noted for its base metal producers, is heating up as a pot…