2004

Partners DiamondWorks (DMW-T) and privately held Magma Diamond Resources have sold the first lot of stones from the recently revived Koidu project in Sierra Leone.In January, 8,099 carats of diamond w…

With strong support from the resource sector, the S&P/TSX composite index jumped 90.81 points over the Feb. 4-10 report period to end the week at 8,751.51.Gold rose US$6.60 in overseas trading to sett…

More than halfway through an 8,500-metre drilling campaign, IMA Exploration (IMR-V) is demonstrating some size potential to the Navidad silver discovery in Argentina’s Patagonia region.Drilling at Gal…

A sliding-scale royalty at the Pipeline gold project in Nevada jumped to a higher rate late last year, enabling Royal Gold (RGL-T) to boost fourth-quarter earnings by 85%.The Denver-based company’s ne…

Vancouver — Canada’s junior exchange made a big comeback over the week ended Feb. 10, as gold stocks started making positive gains. The S&P/TSX Venture Exchange composite index closed at 1866.18, up …

Most export-oriented South African gold companies saw their 2003 earnings hampered by a strong rand, and AngloGold (AU-N) was no exception.Higher currencies in most other operating regions also affect…

Vancouver — Gold-Ore Resources (GOZ-T) is preparing to drill its Yuscaran gold-silver project in eastern Honduras.The company can acquire the property from Breakwater Resources (BWR-T) by spending US…

Continental Minerals (KMK-V) intends to drill-test an early-stage copper-gold discovery at the Xietongmen project, 240 km southwest of Lhasa in Tibet. The Vancouver-based junior, part of the Hunter-Di…

Vancouver — Everton Resources (EVR-V) and partner Globestar Mining (GMI-V) have tabled new copper-in-soil results and completed a first phase of drilling at the Bayaguana group of properties in the D…

Argosy — Peter Lloyd retired as president and CEO but remains non-executive chairman; Cecil Bond appointed interim CEO and will serve as CFO and CEO.Banro — Peter Cowley appointed director.Bullio…