The Northern Miner — Small Producers Index (August 26, 2002)
70.22 (-3.49)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Feds fund scholarships
The federal government has given $24,000 in scholarships to geomatics students under the Geomatics Canada Scholarship Program.Under the plan, 16 college and university students received scholarships w…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (August 26, 2002)
DateAug. 20Aug. 19Aug. 16Aug. 15Aug. 14HighLowTSX Composite6655.296658.106571.726557.576550.07…
LME Warehouse Levels (August 26, 2002)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Aug. 20 (change from Aug. 13 in brackets):MetalStock (tonnes)ChangeAluminium1295775(-…
Rally leaves golds behind
A strong rally in the U.S. markets over the report period Aug. 13-20 brought the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 4.6% and the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 up 6%.The Dow finished the period at 8,872.0…
The Northern Miner — North American Mining Index (August 26, 2002)
71.35 (-1.21)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Supreme court dismisses Westray suit
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the merits of a multimillion-dollar civil action against the government of Nova Scotia by representatives of families of workers killed in the Westray c…
Maverick Minerals suspends Elsa project
Work has been suspended at the Keno Hill tailings reprocessing project, operated by A.M.T. Canada, a subsidiary of U.S.-listed Maverick Minerals Corporation (mavm-o) of Nevada.Maverick, which had take…
Market Summary
The golds and base metals stocks on Canada’s major bourse ended the trading week by posting big losses. The gold in…
Novicourt takes a loss
Noranda’s (NRD-T) base metal subsidiary Novicourt (NOV-T) continues to suffer the ills of low copper and zinc price…
Drill turns at Kikerk Lake
Vancouver — Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) and its joint-venture partners, Northern Empire Minerals (NEM-V) and C…
Akrokeri-Ashanti continues to bleed
With the new Knelson concentrators and cyclone recovery equipment still not on line, Akrokeri-Ashanti Gold Mines (Y…