Looking for a little safety in today’s turbulent markets, investors continued to flock to mining, oil and forestry stocks during the Sept. 16-22 report period. The TSE’s gold and precious metals sub-i…
Alta Gold (ALTA-Q) has begun producing the yellow metal at the Olinghouse mine near Reno, Nev.The operation employs a gravity circuit, which produces concentrates that are melted into dore before bein…
Rio Algom and the Vancouver Stock Exchange recently madesizable contributions to the endowment fund of the University of British Columbia’s Mineral Deposits Research Unit (MDRU), though neither organi…
In industry jargon, they are “technical successes” — remarkable discoveries accomplished under challenging conditions and which, at first glance, appear to have fallen short of the economic threshold…
Nobody can disagree with the need to regulate the behavior of companies in our industry, but we must be on our guard against the rules getting out of hand. I suspect this is happening when the [Ontari…
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Sept.22/98 (change from Sept. 15 in brackets):MetalStocks(tonnes)Change…
Wednesday September 23, 1998Price (US)Week’s ChangeGold*$288.00- $1.15Silver*$ 4.8…
The notion, expressed by Kipling, that East is East and West is West is being increasingly challenged in today’s global economy. Indeed, the twain appear not only to be meeting but forming business de…
In an attempt to increase resources, Golden Phoenix Minerals (GPXM-O) has begun a 20-hole drill program at its High Grade gold project in northeastern California.The property contains a volcanic-hoste…
The waiting is over, the speculation mute. Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand have become PricewaterhouseCoopers; a remarkable new organization that has been helping business do business for more …
London-based analysts Emil Morfett and Nigel Kieser of J.P. Morgan Securities expect that Rio Tinto (RTP-N) will use its financial muscle to acquire quality assets now available at reduced prices.”In …
As expected, Rio Algom (ROM-T), Noranda (NOR-T) and Teck (TEK-T) have affirmed that they will develop the US$2.2-billion Antamina copper-zinc project in Peru.In early September, the partners were aske…
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