1995

Diamond exploration expenditures were the main area of growth in Saskatchewan in 1994, rising by more than 60% from the previous year. The ministry of energy and mines estimates that total surface min…

Molybdenum generated little interest in past years because of poor market conditions and depressed prices. But all that appears to have changed. Today, moly oxide prices are at the US$15.50-16.50-per-…

Replacing reserves is no easy task for companies that annually produce millions of ounces of gold. One major company that has encountered considerable success in achieving this goal through exploratio…

Gold and copper are not the only commodities being pursued in Argentina. Newly listed Plata Mining (ASE) intends to focus on the historic Hualilan gold property in San Juan province. But the junior al…

One of the key planks in the New Democratic Party campaign in the 1991 provincial election was a promise to develop a “land-use strategy” that would end the “valley-by-valley” conflicts in British Col…

The scope of this year’s work on the Taseko property, west of Clinton, B.C., will depend on the amount of funding available. Owner Westpine Metals (VSE) outlined a zone of copper-in-soil anomalies ext…

Drilling on the Viruela zone of gold project in the Mulatos area of northwestern Mexico has returned oxide gold and high-grade copper values. Owner San Fernando Mining (TSE) describes the Viruela as a…

Drilling has extended the stockwork porphyry copper-gold mineralization over 250 metres at the Hearne Hill project in British Columbia to the northeast, beyond the previously defined limits. The depos…

A drilling program is under way on Hawkins Hill at the Hill End project of Nugget Resources (ASE) in New South Wales, Australia. The junior says an east-west “fence” of holes will crosscut the line of…

Increased interest in the Manso Nkwanta district of southwestern Ghana has prompted Vancouver-based Mutual Resources (VSE) to form a strategic alliance with Leo Shield Exploration, whereby the parties…

During the course of a corporate life that spans more than a century, Homestake Mining (NYSE) has transformed itself into one of the world’s largest gold producers by building on the cornerstone of it…

Brokerage firm Yorkton Securities has released its second review of the world’s diamond industry. (The first was published in 1993 in the midst of the Northwest Territories diamond rush.) The review a…