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Orezone drills water wells

Orezone Resources (OZN-T) will spend US$100,000 drilling water wells for a community of roughly 6,000 in Burkina Faso….


TSX resilient after London bombing

The Toronto Stock Exchange survived the July 7 bomb attacks in London to post a 275.93-point, or 2.8%, gain, ending the July 5-11 report period near a 5-year high at 10,217.72. The mining and metals i…


Field work begins at Horse Mountain

Vancouver — Field work by Barrick Gold (ABX-T) is testing the Horse Mountain project, held by joint-venture partner Miranda Gold (MAD-V)….


Mining group slides

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s composite index stayed range-bound during the report period June 21-27, settling at 9,998.09. A 2-parts-per-million change on the week for the broad market obscured some l…


Oil-fired TSX breaks 10,000

Rising prices for crude oil pushed the Toronto Stock Exchange composite index over 10,000 during the report period June 14-20. The composite finished just shy of that mark, at 9,998.11, up 158.17 poin…


Commodities power TSX rebound

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index rose steadily to end the June 7-13 report period 185.97 points better at 9,839.94, a level not seen since early March. A late rally pushed the…


Diamondex Resources field personnel employ a Russian stream-sediment sampling method that involves sampling major streams for kimberlite indicator minerals using a hand-carved cedar pan, then gradually zeroing in on the most promising areas with detailed sampling in nearby tributaries that bear indicator minerals.

Diamondex zeros in on Lena West targets

Diamondex Resources (DSP-V) is pumping $4.8 million — almost half its 2005 exploration budget — into the Lena West property in the Northwest Territories in hopes of confirming the…



Atna Resources President and CEO David Watkins stands in front of the CX pit, part of the Pinson gold project in Nevada's Getchell gold belt. Recent drilling by Atna confirmed the high-grade nature of the principal feeder structures beneath the CX pit.

Atna aims to revive Pinson gold mine

Winnemucca, Nevada — Deep drilling by Atna Resources (ATN-T) could breathe life into the past-producing Pinson gold mine, which decades ago helped establish one of Nevada’s most pr…


Osisko at Canadian Malartic

A near-surface historical resource on Osisko Exploration‘s (OSK-V) Canadian Malartic gold property, 25 km west of Val d’Or, Que., is shaping up to be much larger than previously tho…


Drillers probe gold mineralization at Barrick Gold's 12.8-million-oz. Veladero gold project in Argentina.

A good gold mine is hard to find

Vancouver — “‘Tis not the gold, ’tis the seeking,” Robert Service poetically observed of the fever that gripped prospectors during the early days of the Klondike rush. More than a century later, the…



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