Posts Tagged ‘papua new guinea’

New Guinea Gold (CVE:NGG) temporarily halted mining and processing at its Mt Sinivit operation after it was occupied by the Wild Dog Mining Area Landowner Association and Lulai Nakama Association. Full story

Indochine Mining (ASX: IDC) has commenced the first phase of a drill programme of up to 10,000 metres at its Mt Kare gold/silver project in Papua New Guinea, designed to generate core for metallurgical test work. Mt Kare is potentially a two million ounce gold/silver deposit. Continue reading at IntelliAsia Full story

The proposal by Mining Minister Byron Chan, the son of former Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan, has been tabled just as PNG -- which is often described as an island of gold in a sea of oil surrounded by gas -- is entering a massive resources boom. Full story

Mining Review reports Newcrest Mining CEO Greg Robinson told reporters on Friday it would acquire Harmony Gold Mining’s 50% stake in their massive Wafi-Golpu joint venture in Papua New Guinea if it was for sale. Last month Harmony Gold upgraded the resource estimate for Wafi-Golpu increasing it by 57% to over 1 billion metric tons, making it one of the highest grade copper-gold porphyry systems ... Full story

THREE men are dead in an accident of a Bell Long Range helicopter belonging to Manolos Aviation Limited between the high mountains of Wafi Gold Exploration site and Timini in the Bulolo district of Morobe Province on Monday afternoon. Malolos Aviation Full story

April 6 (Reuters) - Allied Gold Ltd: * Simberi gold production resumes * Says has resumed gold production at its 100 pct-owned Simberi gold mine in Papua New Guinea * Says Simberi is expected to quickly return to steady state production - with 6000 Full story

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- 03/29/11 -- New Guinea Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE: NGG)(FRANKFURT: NG8) - Gold Anomaly Ltd, an Australian Securities listed Company (GOA), operator of the Crater Mountain Joint Venture, announced on March 29, 2011 that Full story

ALLIED Gold says third quarter production will be at the lower end of its guidance, while full year production forecasts remain unchanged. Allied Gold said production at its wholly-owned Simberi gold mine in Papua New Guinea in the three months to March Full story

Newcrest today reported a staggering intersection of copper gold - 883 metres grading 2.15% copper and 2.23 grams/tonne gold at its Wafi-Golpu project. Full story

Kula Gold Limited announced further significant intersections of gold mineralisation at Boniavat, at its wholly owned Woodlark Island Gold Project in Papua New Guinea. Full story