2010


Trelawney Mining and Exploration's president and CEO Greg Gibson (centre) and colleagues at the Chester gold project.

Trelawney advances its Chester gold project

SITE VISIT GOGAMA, ONT. — “You can hear the mine workings from here,” Greg Gibson, the president and CEO of Trelawney Mining and Exploration (TRR-V, RTW-F), tells our group of about 15 as we walk near the cabins used by the staff at the…


Magma ups resource at Thunder Bay North

An updated resource, based on nearly twice as much drilling as the previous estimate completed a year ago, reveals that the Thunder Bay North platinum-palladium-copper- nickel project in northwestern Ontario contains 708,000 platinum-…


Geologist David Penn checks a core sample in North American Palladium's Lac des les mine near Thunder Bay, Ont.

NA Palladium’s efforts at Lac des les pay off

When a mine is placed on care and maintenance, operations often never resume. Sometimes the mine has run out of ore, or into technical difficulties, and metal prices cannot justify a restart. Rarely is a suspension considered an opportunity to…



Stillwater Mining is acquiring the Marathon PGM-Cu project (above), located 300 km east of Thunder Bay, Ont.

Stillwater buying Marathon PGM for US$118M

VANCOUVER — Stillwater Mining (SWC-N), the only significant producer of platinum and palladium in the United States, is paying an 89% premium to take over Marathon PGM (MAR-T) and get its hands on Marathon’s large, feasibility stage…


A worker operates a drill at Alto Ventures' Coldstream gold project in Ontario.

Alto excited by Coldstream

Noranda Exploration discovered Alto Ventures’ (ATV-V) East Coldstream gold deposit in the Burchell Lake area of Ontario, about 100 km west of Thunder Bay. Between 1988 and 1991, Noranda drilled 37 holes into the ground, coming up with an…


HudBay bulks up on Back Forty

HudBay Minerals (HBM-T) likes what it sees at the Back Forty project in Michigan and has chosen to exercise its option on the property far ahead of schedule.


Drillers in action at Harry Winston Diamond's Diavik diamond project, 300km northeast of Yellowknife, NWT.

Solid Q2 for Harry Winston

VANCOUVER — Harry Winston Diamond (HW-T) earned US$16.5 million in the second quarter of the year, a vast improvement over its US$24.5-million loss in the same quarter last year and a strong indicati…


Semafo says minerals up at Mana’s Kona zone

Results from 36 drill holes totaling 5,380 metres at Semafo’s (SMF-T) Mana gold mine in Burkina Faso in West Africa confirm the continuity of the mineralization in the Kona zone immediately northeast …


Long gold-copper hit in Romania lifts Carpathian

VANCOUVER — A deep drilling program at the Rovina Valley gold-copper project in Romania has returned the longest and highest-grade intercept to date from the Ciresata porphyry, one of three deposits …



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