Northern Miner Staff, Author at The Northern Miner

News May 31, 2004

Magistral moves toward feasibility

Vancouver — Drilling is progressing at Inca Pacific‘s (IP-V) Magistral copper-molybdenum project in west-central Peru, following an encouraging technical report.

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Apollo receives Standard mine permits

Vancouver — After 18 months of engineering and environmental studies, Apollo Gold (APG-T) has received an operating permit for the Standard mine, near Winnemucca, Nev.

News May 31, 2004

We at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) normally reply to private correspondence with a private response. We are, therefore, attempting to respond directly to about 500 of you who have written to us expressing concern that the p…

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Aussie deaths prompt gov’t visit

Management officials at BHP Iron Ore in Australia are slated to meet with Western Australia’s development minister, Clive Brown, following fatal accidents at two of the company’s sites.

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Noranda refinery workers vote for strike

Union workers at Noranda’s Canadian Copper Refinery in Montreal have voted in favour of going on strike.

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Imperial hits high grades at Mount Polley (May 31, 2004)

Vancouver — Drilling by Imperial Metals (III-T) has returned high-grade mineralization at the Mount Polley copper-gold project in central British Columbia.

News May 31, 2004

Stronger gold price fuels trading

The holiday-shortened week of May 19-25 saw considerable market activity, with the 10 most active companies all trading more than 6 million shares. (The markets were closed in Toronto on May 24 because of Victoria Day.)…

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Redcorp drill-tests Tulsequah Chief

Vancouver — Assays are in hand for the first two holes of a drill program at the Tulsequah Chief mine property, near Atlin in northwestern British Columbia.

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WMC studies Olympic Dam

Aussie nickel major WMC Resources (WMC-N) has earmarked A$50 million over two years to study whether there should be an expansion of the Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine in South Australia.

News May 31, 2004

Zaruma results sure to expand San Antonio resource

Zaruma Resources (ZMR-T) has intersected significant gold mineralization at the Centenario and Golfo de Oro targets, part of the San Antonio project in Mexico.