1999

The following is the first of a 2-part overview of how junior and mid-tier gold mining companies are coping in today’s low-price environment.Not since the gold bubble of the early 1980s has the London…

It has always been the lot of mining towns to watch ore reserves decline and hope some new feed will come along. When a mining town has been around as long as Flin Flon, that feeling will have come ar…

Zinc and copper minerals are the focus of a drill program under way at the Lady Pond property, near Springdale, Nfld.Canaco Resources (CSE-M) is testing two parallel, 800-metre-long conductors that we…

Startup: TanzaniaBarrick’s wholly owned subsidiary, Kahama Mining Corporation Limited (KMCL), is currently recruiting qualified individuals for their operations in Tanzania, where conventional undergr…

Nord Resources (NRD-N) has picked up the past-producing Johnson Camp copper mine in southeastern Arizona at a time when the price of the red metal is at a 10-year low.The company issued 1.6 million sh…

London-based Billiton International has expanded its Newfoundland exploration portfolio by inking a deal with Rubicon Minerals (RMX-V) to acquire either the Point Leamington or Lewis Lake properties.O…

A zinc-lead-silver project with similarities to the Polaris mine in Canada’s High Arctic has caught the eye of Rio Tinto Mining (RTP-N).The London-based major plans to spend US$500,000 on a summer pro…

At the Wolverine massive sulphide deposit in the Yukon, parters Atna Resources (ATN-T) and Expatriate Resources (EXR-V) are considering alternative metallurgical approaches that would enable them to p…

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