Blacks to own 26% of SA mines under new charter
The revised South African mining charter calls for 26% of every mine to be under black ownership within 10 years and for white-owned companies to help raise the R100 billion needed to achieve this obj…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Return of the commodity cycle
A study recently presented to the Department of Industry concludes that the energy industry is finding it difficult to raise investment capital, and that there is some danger the industry will cut bac…
Horne strike hits CCR refinery (November 04, 2002)
Noranda (NRD-T) intends to cut staff at its CCR refinery in Montreal by about 15%, citing revenue losses caused by striking workers at its Horne copper smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Que.The smelter normal…
NovaGold hits high grade at Donlin Creek
Ongoing drilling by NovaGold Resources (NRI-T) at the Donlin Creek gold deposit in Alaska has cut high-grade gold mineralization within the modeled confines of the Acma pit.Initial results from the st…
Spot Prices Wed. October 30, 2002 Courtesy of Scotiabank
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$317.15+$3.75Silver$ 4.48+$0.07Platinum$590.00+$…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (November 04, 2002)
DateOct. 29Oct. 28Oct. 25Oct. 24Oct. 23HighLowTSX Composite6294.816419.376405.876336.86…
High Arctic zinc mine closures signal end of era
Nanisivik, Nunavut — The final zinc and lead concentrate shipments from the High Arctic departed for Europe’s smelters in September, signaling the end of an era for Canadian mining.For more than two …
Wolfden outlines depth potential at High Lake
Vancouver — Wolfden Resources (YWO-V) continues to intersect high-grade copper mineralization at depth and down-plunge in the B zone of its High Lake property, in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, abo…
Financing in hand for Samira Hill project (November 04, 2002)
The African Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$12.5-million loan to La Socit des Mines du Liptako (SML) to finance the Samira Hill-Libiri gold mining project in Niger.SML is 80%-held by Africa…
OM in freefall
After dropping from US$40 to US$30 in the previous week, the shares of cobalt refiner OM Group collapsed further during the report period, falling 71% on Oct. 29 to US$8.95 and closing at US$7.49 on t…
Ariane confirms French Guiana grades
Vancouver — Initial results from ongoing drilling by Ariane Gold (AGD-T) have confirmed that high-grade zones occur in a broad gold resource at the Camp Caiman project in French Guiana.The infill pro…
St. Jude drills for gold in Ghana
Vancouver — St. Jude Resources (SJD-V) has launched a drilling campaign designed to trace the strike and downdip extension of high-grade zones at the Subriso and Hwini-Butre prospects in Ghana, West …