Kennecott reports Rocking Horse winner
Kennecott Canada Exploration has discovered a new kimberlite body on the Rocking Horse property, northwest of the Jericho region in the Nunavut Territory.Rocking Horse is one of three properties in wh…
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Newmont’s Batu Hijau nears completion
The huge Batu Hijau copper-gold mine on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa is 90% complete and due to enter production in the fourth quarter. Commercial production is expected to follow in the first qua…
Gold Funds (May 10, 1999)
Gold Funds as of April 29, 1999BGRCentralNet Value$14.395.72Price$9.90$5.
America Mineral Fields hangs tough in DRC
With political instability continuing to cripple foreign mining ventures in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), America Mineral Fields (AMZ-T) has battened down the hatches and is now waiting to r…
THE NORTHERN MINER — Small Producers Index (May 10, 1999)
70.93 (+1.85)
THE NORTHERN MINER — North American Mining Index (May 10, 1999)
107.17 (+6.51)
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NAME CHANGE (May 10, 1999)
Gala Resources (GAX-V) has changed its name to Hydromet Technologies (HTL-V) on a 1-new-for-4-old-share basis.
Teck to raise gold-mining profile
Although Teck (TEK-T) has been a gold miner for 85 years, its diversification into copper, zinc, niobium and coal, has prompted recent concerns with analysts that the company is not realizing the full…
EDITORIAL & OPINION — ODDS ‘N’ SODS — Many mineros poor but happy
The following is the third in a series of articles in which the author, an exploration geologist based in Delta, B.C., recounts his experiences working in the jungles of Venezuela in the late 1980s an…
EDITORIAL & OPINION — Labour needs a new agenda — Us and them
Canadians and Americans are different in one major way, a visiting foreign businessman once observed. South of the 49th Parallel, the American Dream — the notion that Joe Average can become Top Dog t…
Gold group retains law firm
A New Hampshire group calling itself the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) has retained the Philadelphia law firm Berger & Montague to help it investigate allegations of manipulation in the gold…