Olympus boosts stake in Phuoc Son
Shares in Olympus Pacific Minerals (OYM-V) dropped nearly 10% in early trading in Vancouver on March 1 after the company announced an all-share deal to boost its stake in the Phuoc Son gold project in…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
The Northern Miner Indices (March 08, 2004)
North American Mining: 111.15 (+2.43)Small Producers: 123.03 (+0.61)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Northern Miner Indices (March 08, 2004)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T17.1%CamecoCCO-T3.3%FalconbridgeFL-T5.0%Freeport McM BFCX-N8.2%GoldcorpG-T4.3%IncoN-T8.7%Kinross GoldK-T4.3%Newmont MiningNEM…
Study offers bright snapshot of Oyu Tolgoi
An independent scoping study has concluded that Ivanhoe Mines’ (IVN-T) Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in southern Mongolia has sufficient and rich-enough mineralization to warrant mining.The study eva…
Eurasian Minerals spreads wings in Kyrgyzstan and Turkey
Vancouver — With $3.9 million in its coffers, Eurasian Minerals (EMX-V) has picked up three mineral exploration licences totalling 5,125 sq. km in Kyrgyzstan, as well as the Sisorta high sulphidation…
African Gold Group zeroes in on Ghana
Four of the men who helped create gold junior Banro (BNR-V) in the mid-1990s have regrouped for a grassroots venture in Ghana under the banner African Gold Group, which will soon begin trading as a ti…
Azure active at Meguma
Vancouver-based Azure Resources (AZR-V) is underground on the Mooseland project, 70 km north of Halifax, where it recently took a bulk sample of more than 2,000 tonnes from the Irving, Little North an…
High River strengthens bonds with Jilbey in Burkina Faso
A proposed deal would see Jilbey Gold Exploration (JLB-V) become the exploration arm of High River Gold Mines (HRG-T) in Burkina Faso.Under the deal, High River would transfer all its exploration prop…
First Associates’ Poirier favours Glencairn
The following is the first in a series of articles concerned with the stock picks of a select group of mining analysts and newsletter writers who follow the junior retail mining sector closely. This w…
Hard to kill
“Prospectors foregathered to the number of about 150 in Toronto on Tuesday to form an association and to formally protest against the passage of the proposed Engineers Act. Organization was quickly pe…
Editorial Cartoon (March 08, 2004)
American Gold gains Metates
Vancouver-based American Gold Capital (AAU-V) has acquired the Metates gold-silver project in the Mexican state of Durango.The company issued 12 million shares for the acquisition, as required under t…