Tournigan eyes Irish gold, parks Mercedes
With $661,500 in hand from a recently completed private placement, Vancouver junior Tournigan Ventures (TVC-V) has…
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Falconbridge inks Kidd deal
Production and maintenance employees at Falconbridge’s (FL-T) Kidd Creek metallurgical copper-zinc operation in Tim…
Diamondex revs its drills
Diamondex Resources (DSP-V) is readying for a 1,600-metre drill program to test several targets on the Czar, Hillto…
Mines ministers split on free trade
Canada’s chief political spokesmen for the mining industry appear to be at odds over the recent Canada-U.S. free-trade agreement. In a recent interview with The Northern Miner, the federal mines minis…
Equatorial cited for work
Equatorial Mining has received an award from the state of Nevada for reclamation work on its Tonopah heap-leach copper project, 320 km north of Las Vegas.The governor’s Excellence in Mine Reclamation …
John D. Frey
John D. (Jack) Frey, a former dean of the Haileybury School of Mines, has died. He was 75.Born in Cranbrook, B.C., in 1926, he graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1949 with a B.A.Sc. …
Genesis surrenders more stones for Pele
Pele Mountain Resources (YPN-V) has recovered 53 commercial-size diamonds from a 4.5-tonne sample derived from the Genesis occurrence on the Festival property, near Wawa, Ont.The diamonds weigh a tota…
Junior market hits all-time low
Vancouver — A lack of buyers combined with a wave of sell orders pushed Canada’s junior exchange to record-setting lows over the report period ended Sept. 24. The TSX Venture Exchange composite index…
Higher gold prices take toll on demand
Faced with a stronger U.S. dollar price and an uncertain economic outlook, global demand for gold fell 14.3% to 729 tonnes during the second quarter, according to Gold Demand Trends, published by the …
Alex Perron
Kirkland Lake prospector and mining entrepreneur Alex Perron has died from complications resulting from cancer. He was 65.Perron, who revived the Kerr Addison mine in Larder Lake after it was closed b…
Ivanhoe reports hot hole at Turquoise Hill (September 30, 2002)
The Turquoise Hill copper-gold project of Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T) in Mongolia’s South Gobi region just got bigger.A hole drilled at the virgin Far North zone returned 638 metres averaging 1.61% copper a…
Producer and Dealer Prices (September 30, 2002)
Antimony: Recent trades US$1,980-2,300/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$2.95/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.27/lb.Chromium: Mid-mkt ores US$65.00/t.Cobalt: Recent trades US$6.30-8.00/lb.Copper: Comex Dec US$0.709/lb.I…