2001

First Quantum Minerals (FM-T) has begun open-pit mining operations at the Lonshi copper oxide deposit in the Democr…

Vancouver — Two of the first three holes into a promising massive sulphide occurrence on the Stares-Calvert proper…

Diamond production has begun on the newly commissioned no. 4 level at SouthernEra’s (SUF-T) Klipspringer diamond m…

Rouyn-Noranda, Que.-based Tom Exploration (TUM-M) has distributed to its shareholders 13.7 million shares of subsid…

News of 3,800 layoffs by aircraft manufacturer Bombardier plus another 5,000 by Air Canada sent the Toronto Stock E…

Vancouver — Since the early 1990s, when a host of foreign companies entered Venezuela in search of large gold depo…

Junior gold producer Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) has inked a letter of intent to sell its George Lake gold proje…

Vancouver — Holding some 300-sq.-km of prospective ground in the prolific Red Lake mining camp of Ontario, junior…

Vancouver — Fort Knox Gold Resources (FNX-T) has moved a step closer in its attempt to acquire five of Inco’s (N-T…

Marine diamond miner Namibian Minerals (NMR-T) says it expects to receive payment of a US$9-million business interr…

Western Copper Holdings (WTC-T) has engaged Kilborn Engineering to provide technical assistance in assessing the ec…

Channel sampling by junior Hucamp Mines (YHU-V) has returned some encouraging nickel and platinum group element (PG…