Affinity group fraud
Among the more notorious scams that occurred in Arizona was a 1980s scheme centred on operations at a suspect gold mine near Rich Hill, northwest of Wickenburg. Phoenix-based Tracon International sold…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Tri Origin starts program Rex changes accounting policy
Tri Origin Exploration (TOE-V) is testing the Kazan copper-gold project 70 km south of Baker Lake in Nunavut, for its potential to host copper-gold deposits similar to Australia’s famous Olympic Dam m…
Juniors busy in Ontario
Vancouver-based Tres-Or Resources (TRS-V) has added 837 claims to its existing 900-claim package east of Martin River, in the Sudbury region of Ontario.The properties are believed to be prospective fo…
Christopher James drills copper showing
Kamloops, B.C.-based Christopher James Gold (CJG-V) is set to drill a new high-grade copper showing on its Silver Lake property, 17 km northwest of Little Fort in the same province.A 1-metre-wide zone…
Global warming separate from Kyoto pact
I have found the editorials in The Northern Miner on global warming over the past year or so to be objectionable. I sense a failure to separate the issue of global warming and its causes, on the one h…
Precious metals get trading site
A consortium of mining companies, refiners and industrial users of gold, silver and platinum group metals will form an Internet-based precious metals marketplace.The site, to be known as Electronic Pr…
Yukon signs road pact with junior
The Yukon government has reached a road maintenance agreement with North American Tungsten (NAT) which supports the reopening of the CanTung mine.The Department of Community and Transportation Service…
Energy crunch cramps Eldorado’s performance
Vancover — Power restrictions in Brazil have slowed production at Eldorado Gold’s (ELD-T) Sao Bento mine and pushed the junior minor into the red.During the recent second quarter, Eldorado tabled a n…
Gold Funds (August 13, 2001)
Gold Funds as of August 2, 2001Dundee Precious MetalsCentral FundNet Value$13.30$5.14Price$9.35$4.69…
Drills hit at Prairie Creek
Vancouver — Results from the first hole in the latest round of drilling on the Prairie Creek base metal property in the Northwest Territories has confirmed the high-grade nature of Zone 3 for operato…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (August 13, 2001)
DateAug.7Aug. 6Aug. 3Aug. 2Aug. 1HighLowTSE 3007772.23Holiday7744.217756.197741.37…
Freeport’s Grasberg zero-cost copper producer
Record gold sales and throughput in the second quarter have allowed Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) to post zero-unit cash costs for each pound of copper produced at the vast Grasberg mine in I…