The Syncrude project’s second-largest shareholder is not an oil company at all. But year-end found the Canadian Oil Sands Trust (COS.UN-T) taking an earnings hit similar to that suffered by the large …
Vancouver — During the first quarter, Miramar Mining’s (MAE-T) operations at Yellowknife, N.W.T., were well on their way to establishing a solid base for a productive year. However, the temporary sus…
The Carlin trend in Nevada has joined such venerable gold camps as Timmins, Ont., South Africa’s Witwatersrand and Uzbekistan’s Muruntan as the latest in the world to produce 50 million oz. gold.The t…
Recent insider trading transactions reported by the Ontario Securities Commission include the following:- Barrick Gold (ABX-T) — Brian Mulroney, director, exercised 237,500 options indirectly at $22….
The recoverable portion of Canada’s crude bitumen resources, a black tarry hydrocarbon that coats the sands and carbonate sedimentary formations in the Athabasca, Cold Lake and Peace River regions of …
Suncor Energy (SU-T), Canada’s third-largest integrated oil company, is in the midst of a massive expansion of its Oil Sands operation, north of Fort McMurray, Alta., a move that should see the compan…
Vancouver — Uranium Power (URMP-C) is searching for oil under the Athabasca Oil Sands near Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta.The Athabasca Oil Sands deposit is the world’s largest hydrocarbon deposi…
Vancouver — The first 20 holes of a recently completed 29 hole drill program on Eldorado Gold’s (ELD-T) Kisladag project in west-central Turkey has expanded the area of known mineralization.Designed …
Vancouver — Production from both the newly commissioned Cerro Bayo mine in Chile and the recently acquired Martha mine in Argentina has Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N) set to increase silver output by 50…
Vancouver — Higher gold prices and lower cash costs propelled Placer Dome (PDG-T) to a healthy profit in the first quarter of 2002, despite an 8% drop in production.The major earned US$43 million (or…
Base metals prices staged a technical rally that soon ran out of steam during the report period April 15-19. For the time being, price action in copper, gold and zinc appears to be taking place betwee…
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