AurionGold advises rejection of Placer offer
Directors of Australian gold miner AurionGold have gone beyond their initial recommendation that shareholders not react to Placer Dome’s (PDG-T) hostile, all-share takeover offer. They are now advisin…
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Fording to get more for less
Calgary-based Fording Coal, the country’s largest coal producer, says it will charge more for its coal this year but sell less of it.The company expects prices will be about 10% higher than the averag…
SouthernEra recovers gems
The first hole drilled into the Sue kimberlite pipe in the Northwest Territories has yielded 95 diamonds for SouthernEra Resources (SUF-T).Sue is part of the Yamba Lake property, in which SouthernEra …
Queenston revs up printing press
Higher demand for its paper has prompted Queenston Mining (QMI-T) to increase the size of a private share offering.The placement now consists of 6.25 million units priced at 80 apiece. Half the units…
US markets stay weak
Stock markets in the U.S. were little-changed over the holiday-shortened trading period July 3-9. Over four trading days, the Dow Jones Industrial Average managed a 1% gain, to 9,096.09 points, while …
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (July 15, 2002)
DateJuly 9July 8July 5July 4July 3HighLowTSX Composite7034.847091.987112.467029.787024.08…
MOST ACTIVE ISSUES, JULY 3-9
ExchgVol(000s)HighLowCloseChangeKinross GoldT275113.473.033.46+0.02…
GREATEST VALUE TRADED, JULY 3-9
ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeAlcoa*N40023833.5231.8031.96-1.00…
Gold Funds (July 15, 2002)
Gold Funds as at July 4, 2002Dundee Precious MetalsCentral FundNet Value$23.51$5.85Price$17.30$6.46…
Aurizon buys out TVX royalty
Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T) has paid $5 million in cash for TVX Gold’s (TVX-T) residual interest in the Casa Berardi property in northwestern Quebec.The residual interest consisted of an outstanding $3.9-mi…
Canadian heavyweights kicked off S&P 500
The July 3-9 report period ended with a surprise bang, when Standard & Poor’s announced that it was removing Alcan, Barrick Gold, Placer Dome and Inco from its S&P 500 index…
Northern Miner Indices (July 15, 2002)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T23.2%CamecoCCO-T3.2%FalconbridgeFL-T5.2%Freeport BFCX.B-N5.8%GoldcorpG-T4.2%IncoN-T9.2%Meridian GoldMNG-T2.8%Newmont MiningNE…