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…
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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…
Tiberon’s Nui Phao enters feasibility stage
Vancouver — Armed with $3 million in financing, Tiberon Minerals (TBR-T) is proceeding with a bankable feasibility study of its 70%-held Nui Phao tungsten project in Vietnam.Since 2000, the junior ha…
Did we hear a tap opening?
It’s not like the Summer of Love in 1996 all over again (at least we hope it’s not), but the season has served us with a tray-full of financings for the junior exploration companies and small producer…
Minnesota’s PGE potential
Exploration for polymetallic deposits, including platinum group elements, in Minnesota has traditionally focused on mafic intrusions of the Mesoproterozoic Duluth Complex, as it contains known occurre…
Tin production disrupted in Australasia
(The following excerpt from The Commodity Refiner, a monthly publication of Barclays Capital Research, provides an overview of the international tin market.)Improvements in demand are evident in the t…
Cobalt ftes centenary of silver discovery
More than 5,000 visitors recently converged on Cobalt, Ont., to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of silver there.As part of the celebrations, the Cobalt mining district was declared a national…