All it took was a mining revival Go west, again
Vancouver’s Mineral Exploration Roundups have, for the past several years, been the most optimistic of the mineral industry’s get-togethers.Sometimes the optimism has grown out of a discovery — for e…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Suppliers Roundup (January 26, 2004)
JV to review Inco’s GoroInco has awarded a US$39.5-million contract to Foster Wheeler and SNC-Lavalin, which will jointly review the Goro nickel-laterite project in New Caledonia.The 50-50 joint ventu…
Bacon at meeting
Gordon Bacon, vice-president of technology and engineering with Inco, will talk about hydrometallurgy for Voisey’s Bay concentrates at the next meeting of the the Minerals Economics Society Discussion…
Development projects look good for Coeur d’Alene
Silver major Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N) is enjoying better-then-expected results from ongoing feasibility studies at its San Bartolome silver project in southern Bolivia and Kensington gold project i…
Anatolia buys 100% of Turkish find
Ilic, Turkey — It’s the Tom Prices, Escondidas and Grasbergs of tomorrow that Rio Tinto (RTP-N) is looking for — large, long-life, low-cost assets that have a material impact. At an estimated resour…
Agnico-Eagle’s costs rise as output falls (January 26, 2004)
Higher byproduct credits for copper, zinc and silver resulted in lower-than-expected costs in the fourth quarter at the LaRonde gold mine in northwestern Quebec.The news comes as owner Agnico-Eagle Mi…
Technical Program (January 26, 2004)
Following last year’s record-breaking attendance and positive indicators for exploration and mining finance in all of the mineral commodities today, the PDAC Convention in 2004 will present a technica…
A message from Toronto Mayor David Miller
It is with great pleasure that I welcome the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s 72nd Annual International Convention Trade Show & Investors Exchange to Toronto. Several hundred years a…
Best-selling author to speak at Monday luncheon
On Monday, March 8, Thomas Homer-Dixon will address the Mineral Outlook luncheon which is sponsored by Newmont Mining Corporation and Kinross Gold Corporation. The author of the best-selling book, The…
People (January 26, 2004)
Aker Kvaerner — David Lawson appointed head of Chilean operations; Don Gale appointed head of Canadian operations.Cazaly Resources — Clive Jones appointed joint managing director with current managi…
The Northern Miner Indices (January 26, 2004)
North American Mining: 106.00 (-0.79)Small Producers: 112.22 (-3.26)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Asia Gold eyes Yagaan (January 26, 2004)
Vancouver — Newly formed Asia Gold (ASG-V) has uncovered a high-sulphidation epithermal gold system on its Western Gobi property in southern Mongolia.The prospect, known as Yagaan, is in a 4.9-by-1.1…