2004

Ursa Major Minerals (UMJ-V) has retained Micon International to complete a technical report on the Shakespeare nickel-copper deposit near Sudbury, Ont., by the end of October.

Vancouver — Following encouraging drill results from the Debarwa Main zone in Eritrea, Sunridge Gold (SGC-V) and partner Sub-Sahara Resources have hit comparable grades in the Debarwa South zone.

Vancouver — A Turkish court decision might disrupt operations at the Ovacik gold mine, which is soon to be acquired by Frontier Pacific Mining (FRP-V).

Vancouver — Imperial Metals (III-T) will inject $500,000 into Fjordland Exploration (FEX-V) through a non-brokered transaction consisting of 1 million flow-through shares and 250,000 non-flow-through common s…

The report period July 14-20 saw the price of gold close down US90. The precious metal fell US$6.35 on July 20 to finish at US$400 per oz. in the afternoon in London. The gold index was down by 2.7%, or 5.53 points, to close at 197.44. The divers…

Guyana Goldfields (GUY-T) is intersecting significant gold at shallow depth on its Aurora property, 175 km west of Georgetown, Guyana.

Weakening junior market volume, coupled with a slight pull back in gold toward the session’s end, led to further softening of the TSX Venture Exchange Index. The index fell more than 32 points to close at 1527.14 during the trading period July 14-…

Osisko Exploration (OSK-V) has intersected significant gold at shallow depths on the Barry gold project, 180 km southwest of Chibougamau in the Abitibi region of Quebec.

Anooraq — Popo Simon Molefe appointed key South African advisor.