2005

News February 21, 2005

Teck Cominco continues performance streak

Vancouver — Teck Cominco (TEK-T) achieved a net earnings record for the fourth quarter and for 2004 as a whole….

News February 21, 2005

Spot Prices Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005 Courtesy of Scotiabank

Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)Change…

News February 21, 2005

Making the acquisition make sense

Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest country by area, with 8.5 million sq. km (3.2 million sq. miles) of territory, and its mineral and precious metal deposits are extensive. The country produces subst…

Auger drilling by Vaaldiam Resources at the newly discovered Clara pipe in the southern block of the Pimenta Buena property in Brazil's Rondonia state. The discovery is significant in that it is the first pipe on the property found by drilling an electromagnetic anomaly, rather than a more-typical magnetic anomaly.

News February 21, 2005

News – 21-FEB-05

Vancouver — The search for diamond-bearing kimberlites in Brazil has been ongoing for at least 40 years, but success has so far proved elusive….

Workers test Canico Resource's Ona-Puma nickel laterite project.

News February 21, 2005

Canico eager to build Ona-Puma

Vancouver — Canico Resource (CNI-T) is awaiting a bankable feasibility study of the Ona-Puma nickel laterite project in the north-central Brazilian state of Para. The ferronickel…

News February 21, 2005

Fortune turns for Jacobina

The Jacobina gold district of Bahia state, Brazil, is one of those famed areas like Kalgoorlie in Western Australia or the Porcupine in Ontario: everybody knows all about them — or to be more precise…

Aerial photo of AngloGold Ashanti's Cuiab gold mine in southeastern Brazil. The mine's expansion will see production rise to 250,000 oz. annually and the mine life extended until 2019.

News February 21, 2005

AngloGold Ashanti to expand Cuiab gold mine

The directors of AngloGold Ashanti (AU-N) have approved a US$121-million expansion of the Cuiab underground gold mine in southeastern Brazil….

News February 21, 2005

The Northern Miner Indices (February 21, 2005)

North American Mining: 113.26 (+3.68)…

News February 21, 2005

Lake Shore tests Thunder Creek

Vancouver — Drilling by Lake Shore Gold (LSG-V) has confirmed the presence of two gold-bearing zones at the Thunder Creek property, near Timmins, Ont….

News February 21, 2005

Misconceptions about mining in Brazil

In 1994 the Brazilian government launched a multi-year plan for the development of the country’s mining sector. More than 160 acknowledged professionals, public officers and scientists collaborated wi…

News February 21, 2005

Partners dive into Lynn Lake (February 21, 2005)

Seymour Exploration (SEZ-V) has agreed to issue 1 million shares to Black Hawk Mining in return for the historic Lynn Lake nickel property in northern Manitoba. The transaction requ…

News February 21, 2005

Yamana primed for growth

Known as a high-concept, grassroots gold explorer in the 1990s, Yamana Gold (YRI-T) has re-invented itself in the last few years and re-emerged as a substantial gold miner with five…

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