2004

Vancouver — Soaring molybdenum prices have induced Amerigo Resources (ARG-T) to add facilities to recover the metal at its Minera Valle Central plant, near Santiago, Chile.

Fortune Minerals (FT-T) has received an updated resource estimate for its Lost Fox coal deposit, 150 km northeast of Stewart, B.C.

Vancouver — The dormant heap-leach pads at Vista Gold‘s (VGZ-T) Hycroft mine in Nevada still contain about 600,000 oz. gold, and Pintail Environmental Solutions intends to extract some of it using microbes.

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Vancouver — Starfield Resources (SRU-V) reports impressive platinum group metal grades from drilling on the Ferguson Lake project in Nunavut.

Vancouver — Drill results from St. Jude Resources‘ (SJD-V) Goulagou property in Burkina Faso indicate a potentially minable bulk-tonnage oxide resource.

Vancouver — Northgate Minerals (NGX-T) has announced plans to buy the Sustut copper deposit from Doublestar Resources (DSR-V). The deposit is in north-central British Columbia, 40 km south of Northgate’s Keme…

Band-Ore Resources (BAN-T) has intersected significant gold by deepening previously drilled holes on its Thorne property in Timmins, Ont.

Less than two months after De Beers withdrew from the Festival diamond project near Wawa, Ont., Pele Mountain Resources (GEM-V) has found a new partner in Goldcorp (G-T). The two companies h…

Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, June 21 (change from June 28 in brackets):…