Golds lower in lacklustre market
The Toronto Stock Exchange made another half-hearted effort at climbing during the report period Nov. 20-25, but the rally ran out of steam on Nov. 26, leaving the TSX composite index at 6,477.77, up …
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Editorial Cartoon (December 02, 2002)
Zircons and the zeitgeist
It has come to light that the Royal Ontario Museum plans to close the Jack Satterly Geochronology Laboratory, part of its Department of Earth Sciences.The lab, which bears the name of one of the giant…
Mud slide kills one at Antamina
A mudslide in early November at the Antamina copper-zinc mine in Peru has claimed the life of one employee of Compania Minera Antamina.The 240,000-cubic-metre slide also covered several pieces of heav…
Chihuahua lures Anglo
Vancouver — Looking to gain a foothold in Mexico’s Chihuahua state, Anglo American (AAUK-Q) has teamed with Western Copper Holdings (WTC-T) to explore 145 sq. km in the historic Almoloya zinc-lead-si…
Russian bear ambles into Stillwater, Montana
Operational setbacks and a precipitous drop in palladium prices have prompted cash-strapped Stillwater Mining (SWC-N) to ponder the unthinkable and become a subsidiary to the world’s largest palladium…
Juniors keep exploration (barely) alive BC
Vancouver — Despite the implementation of one of the most attractive incentive programs in the country, mineral exploration in Canada’s westernmost province failed to ignite in 2002.In 2001, total fi…
Mining Nevada in the early ’40s
Everybody knew that the hills of Nevada had been scoured by countless prospectors and that most deposits exposed at the surface had been discovered. But workable deposits are rare, and scattered over …
Applied stats examples are documented
Prof. Alastair Sinclair, whose letter appeared in your Nov. 4 issue, was present when I taught a short course on sampling precious metals deposits at the University of British Columbia in 1989.He did …
Pele hopes Genesis is start of something big
Pele Mountain Resources’ (YPN-V) discovery of a significant diamond population in the Genesis showing at its Festival property near Wawa, Ont., has dramatically increased the potential for an economic…
Northgate advances Kemess North project; Botwood
Vancouver — Encouraging drill results have prompted Northgate Exploration (NGX-T) to launch a prefeasibility study at its Kemess North gold-copper project in central British Columbia.The results conf…
Spot Prices Wed. November 27, 2002 Courtesy of Scotiabank (December 02, 2002)
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$318.20-0.80Silver$ 4.44-0.11Platinum$587.00-6.00…