It just doesn’t look all that good for nickel.Recent analyses of the nickel market, from a number of quarters, are generally pessimistic. Even accounting for bottom-of-the-market despair, which freque…
Montreal-based Lyon Lake Mines (LLL-M) is acquiring Placer Dome’s (PDG-T) Cerro Crucitas gold project in northeastern Costa Rica and merging with Vancouver-based Palmer Resources (PMD-V).Lyo…
Your garrulous Ocker correspondent displayed the usual Australian sensitivity on matters New Zealand in the recent story “Australasian PGM sector needs dash of Fipke magic” (T.N.M., Sept. 14-20/98).Fi…
Short positions outstanding at October 30, 1998Larger individual positions include:Abitibi-Consolidated 1,122,794, up 66,150; Anderson Exploration 180,911; Argentina Gold 153,400; Asia Pacific Resourc…
Cash flow and earnings were both higher for Barrick Gold (ABX-T) in the first nine months of 1998, as the company benefited from a rationalization program begun in 1997.Barrick made US$218 million (58…
A metallurgical flow sheet designed for the Kwale heavy mineral sands project on the coast of Kenya indicates high mineral recovery rates.The pilot-plant study, conducted by Australian-based MD Minera…
Montreal-based Nora Exploration (NXI-M) is expanding its interest in the Namibian Gemstones diamond concession off the west coast of southern Africa.Nora can boost its interest to 40% from the current…
Jusuf Merukh, a former partner of Bre-X Minerals at the Busang project in Indonesia, is once again making waves in Canadian mining circles.The Indonesian mining promoter had previously attempted to su…
Third-quarter earnings for Iamgold (IMG-T) show that the Sadiola Hill mine in western Mali has remained one of the best cost performers in the gold-mining world.In the same period, the project’s last …
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Depressed gold prices have induced Homestake Mining (HM-N) to reduce to zero the carrying value of its namesake mine in South Dakota. As a result, the San Francisco-based company no longer expects to …
Kennecott Canada Exploration has drill-tested five geophysical targets to date on the Legend property in northeastern Alberta, with only one miss — and, weather permitting, a further four targets are…
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