TORONTO – Golden Star Resources has closed a previously announced bought deal financing of almost 31.4 million common shares at a price […]

SOUTH AFRICA – Vancouver-based Platinum Group Metals has raised US$28.75 million through a public offering of shares, including the fully exercised overallotment. […]

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO – Ivanhoe Mines of Vancouver says its new discovery at Kakula could prove to be Africa’s most significant […]

BOTSWANA - Redpath South Africa has been awarded a first-of-its-kind inclined tunnelling contract in Africa. The approximately C$9.4- for the development of a sand tunnel at the re-commissioned Ghaghoo diamond mine in Botswana. The site, which...

At age 13, Alfaxad Chacha started digging. He never stopped. Seven days a week, 14 hours a day, he sifted through t...

MALI - Artisanal miners have unearthed a 2.7-kg gold nugget on land belonging to AFRICAN GOLD GROUP of Toronto. The...

SOUTH AFRICA - Vancouver's ROCKWELL VENTURES, which is gaining interests in four South African diamond properties, ...

Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) of Marshalltown, South Africa, and Dynatec Corp. of Richmond Hill, Ont., have agreed to join forces at Dynatec's Ambatovy nickel laterite project. The feasibility st...

A small Port Perry, Ont., investment company is having a big impact in East Africa. Besides providing direct mining employment and tax revenues, the company has been able to improve the local agricult...

The first of Barrick's new developments to go commercial in 2005 was the Tulawaka open pit mine, which poured gold on March 15 of this year....

Anyone who attended the PDAC convention in Toronto in early March is aware that opportunity is not only knocking in this business but trying to break down the door. There was record-high attendance; w...

The former mayor of the City of Metropolitan Toronto, Mel Lastman, was known for running on at the mouth. He once jokingly told a reporter that he was worried about being boiled in a pot by cannibals...