Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The first drill hole Spider drilled in the Contendas structure on KWG’s Paraniaba project hit 29 metres of what Spider has interpreted to be epiclastic crater-facies sediments in a large lamproitic cr…

Toronto-based Sonora Diamond (SON-T) saw losses turn to profits this past quarter, as the Klipdam mine ramped up to full production levels.The quarter ended Sept. 30 was the first in which Klipdam, wh…

Gold Funds as of November 13, 1997 BGRCentralNet Value$16.20$5.73Price$11.95…

ExchgValue(000’s)HighLowCloseChange.ZSBarrick GoldT…

ExchgVol(000’s)Close.ZSCobre MngT115845.10Noranda IncT…

Short positions outstanding at October 31, 1997Larger individual positions include: Advanced Material Resources 1,000, down 102,200; Barrick Gold 11,342,879, up 422,432; Bema Gold 261,836, down 4,433,…

Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Nov.17/97 (change from previous week in brackets):MetalStock(tonnes)Change…

Wednesday, November 19, 1997Price (US)Week’s ChangeGold*$306.40- $3.70Silver*$ 5.1…

The gold market is grey and gloomy, and today its sages are competing to see who can come up with the lowest forecast price. But even as gold market watchers enjoy a good old-fashioned game of one-dow…

Loubel Exploration (LBX-M) will begin a 2,500-metre diamond drilling program on its Queylus property near Chibougamau, Que. The program will focus on a mineralized showing uncovered by trenching. Resu…

Jack Cassidy, who worked in both of Ontario’s prolific uranium camps, has died. He was 60.Born in Chilliwack, B.C., Cassidy began his mining career in 1957 as a surveyor at the Bicroft uranium mine, n…

Aluminium: LME settlements US$1,616.50, alloy US$1,480 per tonne (Nov.18/97).Antimony: Recent physical trades US$1,680-1,700 per tonne (Nov. 18/97).Bismuth: Composite free market US$3.40 per lb. (Nov….