Gold Funds (May 20, 2002)
Gold Funds as at May 9, 2002Dundee Precious MetalsCentral FundNet Value$22.71$5.80Price$17.57$6.91…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Jean Elizabeth Wegenast
Jean Elizabeth “Zibby” Wegenast, wife of mining engineer and university professor William Wegenast, has died after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 73.Born in Newfoundland, she was the daugh…
Goldcorp cruises on Red Lake (May 20, 2002)
Despite lower revenue, Goldcorp (G-T) managed to post record first-quarter earnings, thanks to the performance of its Red Lake mine in northwestern Ontario.Revenue during the three months ended March …
Huaron powers Pan Am
Newfound production at the Huaron mine in Peru and La Colorada mine in Mexico enabled Pan American Silver (PAA-T) to boost revenue to US$10.2 million in the recent first quarter, compared with US$4.5 …
Olympus Pacific encouraged at Khe Rin
Olympus Pacific Minerals (OYM-V) is bullish about partial assay results from an 18-hole, 2,100-metre drilling program on the Phuoc Son gold project in central Vietnam.The drilling was aimed at testing…
MOST ACTIVE ISSUES, MAY 8-14
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El Sauzal poised to benefit from Glamis-Francisco merger
The proposed merger between Francisco Gold (FGX-V) and Glamis Gold (GLG-T), now set for mid-June, will provide the latter with some promising development projects.Under the binding offer, which has be…
Archon hits snags while drilling in Lac de Gras
Drilling by Archon Minerals (ACS-V) in the Lac de Gras area of the Northwest Territories has been halted following the testing of only one target.Archon had set about testing some 22 geophysical pipe-…
Cumberland eyes Portage link (May 20, 2002)
Cumberland Resources (CBD-T) has intersected shallow, high-grade mineralization during a drill program aimed at connecting the Third Portage and North Portage deposits on the Meadowbank gold project i…
LME Warehouse Levels (May 20, 2002)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, May 14 (change from May 7 in brackets):MetalStock (tonnes)ChangeAluminium1131625(+149…
Profitable Eldorado advances Turkish, Brazilian assets
Vancouver — Having completed a $25-million equity placement and improved its balance sheet, Eldorado Gold (ELD-T) is looking to advance its projects in Turkey and Brazil.During the first quarter of 2…
Rhonda perseveres at Coronation Gulf
Rhonda (RDM-V) is encouraged by results from glacial till sampling at the Inulik property in the north Slave Craton region of Nunavut.Two samples, 1.4 km apart, returned kimberlite indicator mineral c…