U.S. Gold in search of the Holy Grail
Robert McEwen, chairman and CEO of U.S. Gold (UGX-T, UXG-X), looks to the recent discovery of the 8-million-oz. Cortez Hills deposit by Placer Dome (now Barrick Gold [ABX-T, ABX-N]) as the motivation …
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Staccato eyeing Eureka gold
Vancouver — Aiming to prove that the best place to look for a new mine is near an old one, Staccato Gold Resources (CAT-V, STCGF-O) set out four years ago to acquire a large land position in Nevada, …
African mining conference draws masses
Cape Town, South Africa — On strong commodity prices and a sustained bull market, the opening day of the 12th annual Mining Indaba conference attracted more than 4,000 delegates to hear about the ong…
Minires du Nord hits high-grade under Tulawaka pit
As Minires du Nord (Northern Mining Explorations) (MDN-T) gets ready to boost production at its Tulawaka open-pit gold mine in Tanzania, drill results for a potential underground mine have verified t…
Editor’s Picks: Top news of the week (February 16, 2007)
Acquisitions within the mid-tier sector took centre stage in the trading week ended Feb. 16, with the biggest one a…
Xstrata, Barrick table new Kabanga resource (February 15, 2007)
Its a deposit thats been kicking around for decades, but seems to be getting more respect of late.Partners Xs…
Minieres du Nord shares up 24% on Tanzania drilling
As Minieres du Nord (MDN-T) gets ready to boost production at its Tulawaka open-pit gold mine in Tanzania, drill re…
Barrick exploration head says easy gold has all been found
Vancouver – Life in the gold exploration sector is not getting any easier, especially for major mining companies wh…
Ivanhoe looks beyond Oyu Tolgoi
Vancouver — Looking beyond its flagship Oyu Tolgoi property in Mongolia, Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) says it has found a series of related iron oxide copper-gold systems, some of …
Friedland looks beyond Oyu Tolgoi
Vancouver – Looking beyond its flagship Oyu Tolgoi property in Mongolia, Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, I…
Pacifica Finding More Mineralization at Howards Pass
Large base metal deposits discovered in northern Canada during the 1970s all faced the same obstacles to development: first, the costs of building mines and mills in areas with few or no roads, and se…
Int’l Royalty to Buy Nsr on Pascua-Lama
Vancouver — International Royalty (IRC-T, ROY-X) has inked a deal to purchase a sliding-scale net smelter return (NSR) royalty on Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) monstrous Pascua-Lama gold deposit, whi…