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Pittsburgh, Pa.-based Allegheny Technologies has sold the North American operations of distribution company Titanium Industries to a new company led by the latter’s management.Allegheny will retain ti…
Base metals trend upward following copper production cuts
Base metals were in a strong position at the end of the report period Nov. 5-9. In a delayed reaction to cuts to copper production, prices across the whole base metals complex broke through stops in t…
The Northern Miner — North American Mining Index (November 19, 2001)
67.86 (-0.06)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
The Northern Miner — Small Producers Index (November 19, 2001)
46.57 (+0.09)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Gold Funds (November 19, 2001)
Gold Funds as of November 8, 2001DundeePrecious MetalsCentral FundNet Value$13.41$5.39Price$9.50$5.3…
Staff Investment Policy (November 19, 2001)
The Northern Miner does not permit any editorial employee to file stories about companies in which the writer owns shares. Editorial employees are also not permitted to take part in initial public off…
Altius options Rambler property
Altius Minerals (ALS-V) has reached an agreement with privately held Ming Minerals to acquire the northern portion of the past-producing Rambler copper-gold mine in Newfoundland’s Baie Verte Peninsula…
Newmont jumps in
Applying a new twist to industry consolidation, Newmont Mining (NEM-N) has announced its intention to acquire Normandy Mining (NDY-T) and Franco-Nevada Mining (FN-T) to create the world’s large…
New results bolster Skukum Creek
Vancouver — Recent drill results, together with an analysis of historical core, have enabled Tagish Lake Gold (TLG-V) to identify three zones of mineralization not included in previous resource calcu…
Starfield adds tonnage at Ferguson Lake
Vancouver — Drilling at Starfield Resources’ (SRU-V) Ferguson Lake property in Nunavut has added 8.4 million tonnes to the copper/nickel/cobalt/platinum-group-metal resource.The additional tonnage oc…
Ensuring competitiveness
As Canadians strive to come to terms with the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 in New York, N.Y., our preoccupation with near-term issues such as the security of the country and safety of its citizens is…