Towards sustainable mining
“The return on investment from aggressively improving company-wide sustainable development knowledge and initiatives can make other traditional investment initiatives seem trivial.”– Bob Willard, The…
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Barrick’s Davidson honoured for long, long career
In the late 1970s, Alex Davidson, then a student at McGill University, was attending the annual PDAC convention in Toronto when he stuck his head inside the Canadian room at the Royal York Hotel to ca…
Energy production = autonomy
The impact of mining operations on communities is usually extremely positive. When the mines are operating, they are a flurry of activity, and good-paying jobs are plentiful. But when metal prices sta…
Base metals diverge, golds plunge deeper
The Toronto Stock Exchange composite index plunged 80.77 points over the Feb. 26-Mar. 4 report period to finish the week at 6,422.33.On March 5, gold settled at a London morning fix of US$354.50 per o…
BHP enjoys higher output at Ekati mine
BHP Billiton’s (BHP-N) share of mine production at Ekati in the Northwest Territories was 1.1 million carats in the recent fourth quarter — 15% higher than in the corresponding period of 2001 and 12%…
WO find delivers few stones
Last fall’s discovery of a lake-covered kimberlite on the WO claim block in the Lac de Gras area of the Northwest Territories has yielded just two microdiamonds from a small, 34.65-kg representative d…
Golds slip in bouncy trading
U.S. markets had a bouncy week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average covering a 150-point spread in the report period Feb. 19-25, before settling at 7,909.50. The golds were down and the base metal p…
Diamonds among best bets for ’03
The Northern Miner asked several followers of the junior mining sector for their recommendations and predictions for 2003. Last week we heard from John Kaiser and Donald Poirier. This week, James Must…
Analysts pick best bets for 2003
The Northern Miner asked five analysts of the junior mining sector for their recommendations and predictions for 2003. The list includes John Kaiser, publisher of the Kaiser Bottom Fishing Report, Don…
Maggie Hays gets green light (February 03, 2003)
Vancouver — LionOre Mining International (LIM-T) is proceeding with a US$13-million development program at the Maggie Hays nickel project in the Lake Johnston region of Western Australia.The deposit,…
A sweet week for golds
Gold bugs were delighted over the holiday-shortened report period as prices for the yellow metal surged more than US$7 to a new, 6-year high of almost US$360 per oz.Gold has been on a steady march upw…
Fording battle ends in peace (January 20, 2003)
The heated battle for Calgary-based coal miner Fording (FDG-T) has ended with a truce that would see rival bidders combine their respective metallurgical coal assets under the banner Fording Canadian …