Trading Summary – TSX (January 26, 2004)
A plus-2% gain by the technology stocks wasn’t enough to keep the Toronto Stock Exchange out of the red on Monday.
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St. Jude cuts more gold at Benso (January 26, 2004)
Vancouver — St. Jude Resources (SJD-V) has released more encouraging drill results from the Benso concession in Gh…
Pacific Minerals increases gold resource at 217 project
Vancouver — Pacific Minerals (PMZ-V) has tabled a new, independent resource estimate of its in-pit gold resource…
Diamond Fields’ shares sink
Shares in marine diamond miner Diamond Fields International (DFI-T) dove 15, or 25%, to 45 in early trading in To…
Aquiline revs its drills
Ongoing drilling by Aquiline Resources (AQI-V) continues to return encouraging grades form the Calcatreu gold-silve…
Where do we go from here?
Along with salt and sharp-edged weapons-grade obsidian and chalcedony (flint), coloured gemstones probably have been mined longer than any other mineral commodities known to man. However, it is only o…
Editorial Cartoon (January 26, 2004)
Bacon at meeting
Gordon Bacon, vice-president of technology and engineering with Inco, will talk about hydrometallurgy for Voisey’s Bay concentrates at the next meeting of the the Minerals Economics Society Discussion…
The Northern Miner Indices (January 26, 2004)
North American Mining: 106.00 (-0.79)Small Producers: 112.22 (-3.26)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Anatolia buys 100% of Turkish find
Ilic, Turkey — It’s the Tom Prices, Escondidas and Grasbergs of tomorrow that Rio Tinto (RTP-N) is looking for — large, long-life, low-cost assets that have a material impact. At an estimated resour…
Teck takes shine to Freewest’s prospect
Teck Cominco (TEK-T) has invested in a grassroots gold discovery of Freewest Resources Canada (FWR-V) in northwestern Ontario.The Vancouver-based major will take down 1.1 million units of Freewest pri…
Gold prices revive NWT projects
Improved metal prices have always had a way of giving new life to old projects, so it need not be a surprise that the recent rise in the gold price has acted like a defibrillator on several projects i…