Writedowns affect Manhattan’s earnings
Vancouver — Writedowns on the sale of its Mexican operations have prompted Manhattan Minerals (man-t) to restate losses for the 3- and 9-month periods ended Sept. 30, 2000.Excluding the charge from d…
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Northern Dynasty eyes Alaskan porphyry belt
Vancouver — Large copper-gold porphyry intrusions typically occur in clusters, and Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-V) is hoping the area around its newly acquired Pebble deposit in Alaska is no except…
Geochemistry from a hundred metres up
Ontario-based Ekwan Technologies is hoping to take a stranglehold on what it believes will be a large emerging market for an airborne system that maps geochemical alteration over large areas. The syst…
Opawica execs beef up holdings
Recent insider trading transactions reported by the Ontario Securities Commission in its OSC Bulletin include the following:Birim Goldfields (BGI-T) — Denis Simoneau, director, bought 200,000 shares …
Fronteer samples Birch-Uchi properties
Fronteer Development Group (YFV-V) reports significant results from initial exploration of its Sandy Point and Shanty Bay properties, northeast of Red Lake, Ont.At the Sandy Point property, 22 grab sa…
WMC rejects Alcoa bid
The board of directors of Australia’s WMC (WMC-N) has rejected a confidential approach by U.S.-based aluminum giant Alcoa (AA-N) to acquire all the outstanding shares in WMC for a A$10.20-per-share ca…
Maude Lake earns its half of Comtois ground
Montreal-based Maude Lake Exploration (MAU-V) has acquired a half-interest in 130 claims owned by Cameco (CCO-T) at the 185-claim Comtois gold property, west of Lebel-sur-Quevillon, Que.The deal was r…
PEOPLE (November 26, 2001)
Tyler Res. — James Devonshire appointed president.Ivanhoe — Edward Flood appointed deputy chairman; Hugo Dummett appointed executive vice-president of project development; Pierre Masse appointed chi…
Placer cuts Madsen updip
Drilling by Placer Dome (PDG-T) at Claude Resources (CRJ-T) has intersected four zones of gold mineralization at the historic Madsen mine in Ontario’s Red Lake camp.The effort was aimed at testing for…
Pacific NW Capital explores River Valley
With another $2.3 million in the till, Pacific North West Capital (PFN-T) is resuming exploration drilling at its River Valley platinum-palladium project, near Sudbury, Ont.To date, 138 holes at the D…
Esquel looking good for Brancote
The Esquel gold project in southern Argentina has enough reserves to sustain a proposed 5,000-tonne-per-day open-pit mine for 6.5 years, and London-based Brancote Holdings believes it can find additio…
Glamis poised to enlarge Marigold operation
A study has confirmed the feasibility of expanding the Marigold mine in Nevada’s Battle Mountain trend.Reno-based Glamis Gold (GLG-T) says the study estimates minable resources (proven and probable re…