Trading Summary (October 22, 2002)
Toronto gold stocks regained their glitter and then some on Tuesday, rising 7.93 points or nearly 5% to 167.11 poin…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Fording circles the wagons
Rather than submit to a $1.5-billion takeover bid by the Sherritt Coal Partnership II, an alliance between Sherritt…
Apex drops Atna’s Chanarcillo property (October 22, 2002)
Vancouver — Apex Silver Mines (SIL-A) has elected not to participate in any further exploration of Atna Resource’s…
Anglo extends Philippine find
Vancouver — Delineation drilling on the Boyongan prospect in the Philippines continues to churn out impressive cop…
Cambior profits from higher gold prices (October 22, 2002)
Riding higher gold prices, Cambior (CBJ-T) managed to post a tidy profit for the three months ended Sept. 30, the f…
Trading Summary (October 21, 2002)
A sliding bullion price sent the Toronto Stock Exchange’s gold stocks lower to start the week. The Gold Index dropp…
Sherritt, teachers eye Fording Coal
The Sherritt Coal Partnership II, an alliance between Sherritt International (S-T) and the Ontario Teachers’ Pensio…
Western Copper expands Chile Colorado
Vancouver — The latest results from an 8,100 metre drill program targeting the Chile Colorado zone has expanded th…
Partners propose for Salamandra
Already working on earning a half-interest in the Salamandra property in Mexico’s Senora state, Alamos Minerals (AA…
New tents pitched in Red Lake camp
Aquiline Resources (AQI-V) has entered into an option agreement to acquire a 60% stake in Global Consolidated Minerals’ Dome project, in the Red Lake mining camp in northern Ontario.To acquire its int…
Election turmoil comes at bad time for Brazil Reading Lula da Silva
Financial markets in Brazil were jittery after the first round of presidential elections gave Workers’ Party candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva 46% of the vote, double that of his nearest rival, Jorg…
Mary Rabbitt
Mary Rabbit, a noted geophysicist and historian with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Reston, Va., has died. She was 87.Mrs. Rabbit (ne Collins) was born in 1915 in Boston, Mass., and grew up in …