Hard hats to fundraising
Two of the 33 Chilean miners have put on their fundraising hats to promote the upcoming National Folkloric Ballet of Chile (BAFONA) tour across Canada.
Canada
Pacific North West looks to bolster Ontario’s PGM cred
Talk of platinum and palladium often leads North American mining investors’ minds to such far off places as South Africa, Russia and Zimbabwe.
Detour set to make Canadian gold mining history
The landscape around this town is prototypical of northeastern Ontario: a flat horizon dense with coniferous trees, broken here and there by a still, black lake.
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BCGold – Darren Bahrey resigned as a director; Wes Roberts appointed a director.
Richmont’s Wasamac shows potential
Shares of Richmont Mines (RIC-T, RIC-X) jumped $1.42, or 15.1%, to $10.69 on drill results from its Wasamac gold property in Quebec’s Abitibi region.
Cadillac Ventures boosts resource at Thierry mine project
Cadillac Ventures (CDC-V) has increased measured and indicated resources by 33% and inferred resources by 75% at its 100%-owned Thierry polymetallic mine project in northwestern Ontario, based on drilling completed in 2010 and 2011.
NovaGold boosts costs for Donlin
NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-X) has updated the cash needed to build its joint-venture Donlin (formerly Donlin Creek) gold project in Alaska, to US$7 billion from US$4.5 billion.
Strong drill results from Queenston
Queenston Mining (QMI-T) has completed nine new drill holes at its wholly owned Upper Beaver gold-copper deposit in Kirkland Lake, Ont.
Magino holds promise for Prodigy Gold
Results from infill and resource expansion drilling at Prodigy Gold’s (PDG-V) Magino gold project near Wawa, Ont., sent the junior’s shares up 10% to close at 64¢ on Aug. 30.
Positive results for Lake Shore’s Thorne
Promising assays from Lake Shore Gold’s (LSG-T) Thorne gold property in Timmins, Ont., did little to lift the company’s shares. The junior has been trading near its 52-week low of $1.91 on Aug. 15, 2011, since releasing dismal second-quarter…
Nunavut gold find leaves Prosperity investors wanting more
Prosperity Goldfields (PPG-V) has drilled 157.6 metres of 1.7 grams gold per tonne at its main Kiyuk gold project in southern Nunavut, including a higher-grade section of 30.5 metres grading 4.9 grams gold. The results are from the company’s…
Lawrence Roulston’s top stock picks
“There is a huge amount of uncertainty in the financial markets right now,” says Lawrence Roulston, a geologist and the editor of the newsletter Resource Opportunities, at the recent Cambridge show in Toronto. “There is so much negativity with…