Afri-Can tops up till (August 19, 2003)
Junior Afri-Can Minerals (AFA-V) intends to raise $2.5 million to renew its search for marine diamonds off the coas…
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Mag cuts narrow vein at depth (August 19, 2003)
Vancouver — Initial results from an ongoing, 3,500-metre drill program indicate narrow intervals of high-grade sil…
Trading Summary (August 18, 2003)
The Toronto Stock Exchange ended Monday’s trading session 20.78 points higher at 7,411.33. No thanks were due the g…
Claude squeaks by second quarter
Higher head grades and stronger gold prices enabled Claude Resources (CRJ-T) to offset the weaker U.S. dollar and r…
Yamana closes Brazilian deal
Vancouver Armed with a $55.5 million financing, Spokane-based Yamana Resources (YRI-T) has handed over US$20.9 mi…
Alcan submits formal Pechiney bid to EU
Alcan (AL-T) has formally submitted its 3.4-billion-euro bid for French rival Pechiney with the European Commission…
Juniors advance Philippine projects
Vancouver — Despite an array of political and legal hurdles, a growing number of Canadian and Australian exploration companies are reporting progress at projects in the Philippines.Among the Canadian…
Yanzhou leads China’s coal miners
While most of this year’s top-performing miners on the New York Stock Exchange are familiar names to North Americans, there is one less well-known company that keeps popping up on the winners’ list: C…
Ivanhoe looks to China to unlock Gobi treasure
The ever-growing Turquoise Hill copper-gold discovery, deep in Mongolia’s South Gobi desert, is on the doorstep of a country that now consumes more copper and more steel than any other region in the w…
Editorial Cartoon (August 18, 2003)
The Northern Miner Indices (August 18, 2003)
North American Mining: 83.43 (+2.31)Small Producers: 86.36 (+3.91)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Daily Metal Prices (August 18, 2003)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)DateAug. 12Aug. 11Aug. 8Aug. 7Aug. 6Al Alloy1380/1380…