Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Vancouver-based Tone Resources () has entered into an agreement with Teck Cominco (TEK-T) to explore an area of mutual interest in Nevada.

Inco boasts record earnings…

North American Mining: 111.04 (+0.03)…

Drilling by Miramar Mining (MAE-T) is extending mineralization in the Madrid area of the Hope Bay gold project, near Bathurst Inlet in Nunavut.

Metallica Resources (MR-T) has acquired Glamis Gold‘s (GLG-T) net smelter return royalty on the Cerro San Pedro heap-leach gold-silver project in central Mexico.

The mill at the Ok Tedi copper-gold mine in northwestern Papua New Guinea is back to full capacity following a 2-month shutdown of one of its grinding circuits.

Shares of Grand Central Silver Mines (GSLM-O) have doubled, tripled and quadrupled in recent months, following news that the company had found a “Carlin-type” gold deposit adjacent to the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah.

Tiomin Resources (TIO-T) has acquired a 3-acre parcel of land on the southern side of Mombasa Harbour in order to advance its Kwale titanium-sands project in Kenya.

Vancouver — Pacific Rim (PMU-V) plans to sell its Chilean unit that holds the Andacollo gold mine to Toronto-based MCK Mining ().

Canadian mineral exploration companies have historically thought of Latin America as their turf. It was the juniors of Vancouver and Toronto that made many of the discoveries there that are today productive mines.

Peru will produce 5% more copper in 2004 than in 2003, or roughly 881,000 tonnes, worth an estimated US$1.2 billion. The prediction comes from the country’s National Society of Energy, Mining and Petroleum, based in Lima.

Antimony: Mid-mkt US$2,950/t.