Furnace accident forces early shutdown
An early-morning furnace run-out has forced the temporary suspension of operations at Falconbridge’s (FL-T) Kidd co…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Indo Mining Law moves forward
Vancouver — With both Newmont Mining (NEM-N) and Weda Bay Minerals (WDA-T) sitting on the sidelines, Indonesian go…
Drilling resumes at High Lake (August 13, 2001)
Vancouver — With spring breakup finally over in Canada’s high north, Wolfden Resources (YWO-V) has resumed drillin…
New showings at Nunavik
Vancouver — An independent sampling program over the Nunavik copper-nickel property in northern Quebec has confirm…
Fort Knox begins stripping at McBratney Lake
Fort Knox Gold Resources (FNX-T) has begun a program of mechanical stripping and geological mapping and sampling on…
Pace falls off for Akrokeri-Ashanti
Thanks to lower gold prices and grades, Akrokeri-Ashanti Gold Mines (YAG-V) wasn’t able to keep up the record-setti…
Trading Summary (August 13, 2001)
The gold and precious minerals subindex put in the best percentage gain on Monday, rising 130.67 points, or 2.75%,…
Northern Miner Indices (August 13, 2001)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T18.7FalconbridgeFL-T5.9Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T6.5Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N5.3Homestake MiningHM-N6.4IncoN-T9.4Newm…
TSE Shorts (August 13, 2001)
Short positions outstanding at July 31, 2001Larger individual positions include:Agnico-Eagle 399893 up 193974; Alcan Inc. 1179917 down 135266; Anderson 5,367,864 up 741,970; Barr…
Placer’s Cristinas deal stirs up controversy
Although trading volumes were low during the holiday-shortened report period of Aug. 1-7, there were nonetheless several developments in the Canadian mining scene.Reuters reported that Venezuelan stat…
Mining index leads rally for CDNX
Trading on Canada’s junior exchange perked up during the holiday-shortened week. The Canadian Venture Exchange composite index closed the period ended Aug. 7 at 3098.27, up 35.26 points (or 1.1%). The…
The Northern Miner — North American Mining Index (August 13, 2001)
69.06 (-1.05)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…