Starfield expands at Ferguson Lake
Vancouver — Drilling has increased, by 5.6 million tonnes, the inferred resource at the Ferguson Lake nickel/copper/cobalt/ platinum-group-metal project in Nunavut.Starfield Resources (SRU-V) reports…
Homestake Mining Company
Northern Miner Indices (September 03, 2001)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T18.7FalconbridgeFL-T5.9Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T6.5Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N5.3Homestake MiningHM-N6.4IncoN-T9.4Newm…
Interest rate cut falls flat
Denver — Financial markets sank in response to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest quarter-point interest rate cut, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down 238.03 points, or 2.3%, for the report …
Northern Miner Indices (August 27, 2001)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T18.7FalconbridgeFL-T5.9Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T6.5Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N5.3Homestake MiningHM-N6.4IncoN-T9.4Newm…
Northern Miner Indices (August 20, 2001)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T18.7FalconbridgeFL-T5.9Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T6.5Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N5.3Homestake MiningHM-N6.4IncoN-T9.4Newm…
Northern Miner Indices (August 13, 2001)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T18.7FalconbridgeFL-T5.9Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T6.5Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N5.3Homestake MiningHM-N6.4IncoN-T9.4Newm…
Starfield boosts Ferguson Lake (August 13, 2001)
Vancouver — Junior Starfield Resources (SRU-V) has revised its estimate for inferred resources at the Ferguson Lake copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum-palladium property, 160 km south of Baker Lake in Nun…
Northern Miner Indices (August 06, 2001)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T18.7FalconbridgeFL-T5.9Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T6.5Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N5.3Homestake MiningHM-N6.4IncoN-T9.4Newm…
Barrick profits clipped
Lower production and higher power costs at key mines took a bite out of Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T) second-quarter earnings, but the major says it still expects year-end earnings to ring in at about US70 …
Gold miners take a beating
Denver — The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 281.69 points, or 2.8%, during the report period ended July 31 to close at 10,522.81, while spot gold on the Comex division of the New York Mercantil…
Northern Miner Indices (July 30, 2001)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T18.8ComincoCLT-T4.9FalconbridgeFL-T5.9Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T6.3Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N5.0Homestake MiningHM-N6….
Homestake books new reserve at Veladero
Further drilling by operator and 60% owner Homestake Mining (HM-N) at the Veladero property in the Argentine Andes has nearly doubled gold reserves and upped silver reserves by 60%. But engineering wo…