Odyssey applies geological know-how in Turkey
Fatsa, Turkey — Having determined the mineral potential of its properties near this coastal town on the Black Sea, Odyssey Resources (ODX-V) is attempting to raise funding to renew drilling.The compa…
Teck Resources Limited
Northern Dynasty fast tracks Pebble
Vancouver — Armed with a $5-million financing, Hunter Dickinson-led junior Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-V) is intensifying exploration efforts over the 89-sq.-km sulphide system on the Pebble gold-…
Teck Cominco eyes diamonds on Victoria Island
Vancouver — Teck Cominco (TEK-T) has inked a deal with Diamonds North Resources (DDN-V), paving the way for the world’s largest zinc producer to earn up to a 70% interest in the Blue Ice diamond prop…
Wolfden adds zone, mill and properties
Follow-up drilling by Wolfden Resources (YWO-V) has intersected a massive sulphide zone 1.7 km west of the existing A/B and D zones on its High Lake volcanogenic massive sulphide property in Nunavut’s…
People (June 23, 2003)
Teck Cominco — Chris Thompson appointed to board of directors.Trivalence — Omair Choudhry appointed CFO; Hamish Malkin resigned as CFO.True North Gems — Len De Melt appointed project m…
Simmons to manage PDAC’s E3 program
The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) has appointed Barry Simmons as project manager of E3 (Environmental Excellence in Exploration), an online guide to environmental practice in m…
Northern Miner Indices (May 26, 2003)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T20.0%CamecoCCO-T3.6%FalconbridgeFL-T4.6%Freeport McM BFCX-N5.8%GoldcorpG-T4.5%IncoN-T8.0%Kinross GoldK-T4.5%Newmont MiningNEM…
Shareholders may not want to be subordinate Control freaks
Annual meeting season has seen some of its usual theatrics and high jinks this year, but one theme has popped up in several places: shareholders, especially large ones, are tired of capital structures…
Northern Miner Indices (May 19, 2003)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T20.0%CamecoCCO-T3.6%FalconbridgeFL-T4.6%Freeport McM BFCX-N5.8%GoldcorpG-T4.5%IncoN-T8.0%Kinross GoldK-T4.5%Newmont MiningNEM…
Nickel demand rises while zinc slips
The following is the last of four instalments of The Commodity Refiner, published by London, U.K.-based Barclays Capital Research. This week we offer an overview of nickel and zinc markets.NickelVolat…
Miner dies at BC coal mine
A worker at the Greenhills coal mine, near Elkford, B.C., was killed when the pickup truck he was driving collided with a load-haul-dump machine.The death of Nathan Regular, 27, of Sparwood, B.C., is …
Broad market stages rally
Fueled in part by gains in the gold and base metal sectors, the Toronto Stock Exchange rocketed 148.32 points over the April 30-May 6 report to land at 6,693.71.By the period’s end, the gold group had…