Pace pays off with rapid resource for Oroco
Vancouver – It took only $1.25 million and five months of drilling for Oroco Resource (OCO-V) to define a promisi…
Gold
Assay lab ‘Oops’: Northern Freegold intercept now bonanza grade gold
Vancouver – Northern Freegold (NFR-V) CEO Bill Harris and president Susan Craig suspected the assay result of a dri…
Victoria Gold and StrataGold propose merger
Nevada-focused Victoria Gold (VIT-V) has made a friendly offer for StrataGold (SGV-V), which has an advanced gold p…
Centamin to bring back gold in land of the Pharaohs
After a long hiatus Egypt is on the cusp of getting a new major gold mine.
TSX to determine Minera Andes’ fate as producer asks to issue 121 million shares
Vancouver – A few months ago, it seemed like Minera Andes (MAI-T) had it all: a 49% stake in a producing gold-sil…
Cadiscor and Tiomin combine to form new company
The proposed merger of Cadiscor Resources (CAO-V, CADRF-O) and Tiomin Resources (TIO-T) will create a new company t…
Colossus reports stellar assays at Serra Pelada
The first systematic assay results for the full suite of platinum group elements at Colossus Minerals’s (CSI-T, COL…
Court blocks Rusoro takeover bid for Gold Reserve
The Ontario superior court has issued an injunction stopping the hostile takeover bid by Rusoro Mining (RML-V, RMLF…
Volta defines initial copper-gold resource in Burkina Faso
Vancouver – A few days after its joint-venture partner returned full ownership of the Gaoua copper-gold property …
Red Back Mining posts record production in Q4
Mines in Mauritania and Ghana posted record production in the fourth quarter for gold producer Red Back Mining…
First Uranium To Bring Low-Cost Uranium-Gold Mines Online
First Uranium (FIU-T, FUM-J) is close to completing two financing deals that together will allow the company to fund capital expenditures at its two uranium-gold projects in South Africa and bring the…
Freeport Defends Phelps Takeover After US$13B Writedown
VANCOUVER — Impairment and goodwill charges primarily related to Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s (FCX-N) acquisition of Phelps Dodge in March 2007 have come back to haunt it with a US$13.9-billi…