Strength returns to base metals
During the report period Dec. 4-8, base metals markets put in their best performance since late August, as funds rushed to cover short positions. The market was invigorated early in the week by hints …
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Inca Pacific, Mansfield attract attention for South American projects
Junior mining companies are adopting various strategies to help them through these tough times, but the most common remains the old standby of taking on projects robust enough to attract major partner…
MEETINGS (December 18, 2000)
Dec. 20 Auriginor — annual, general, specialDec. 20 Digger — annual, special; 10 am, 2550-555 W. Hastings St., VancouverDec. 20 Featherstone — annual, general; 3:30, Coast Harbourside…
The Northern Miner — Small Producers Index (December 18, 2000)
46.72 (+2.17)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Phelps Dodge hires advisors
Denver — Phelps Dodge (PD-N) has retained financial advisors to avise the Phoenix-based copper producer on its non-mining businesses.Goldman Sachs will give advice on PD Wire & Cable, which produces …
GREATEST VALUE TRADED, DEC. 6-12
ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeAlcoa*N 577656 32.38 28.75 31.62 +0.12…
Share and share alike
As a qualified physical scientist with a background in mineral sciences and mining, I dare say that if all good mineral science were shared and not cloaked in secrecy, as is the case in the mineral ex…
Alaska’s d(2) battle
In October 1976, the Alaska Miners Association (AMA) held its first statewide convention in Anchorage to discuss, among other things, a federal government proposal to withdraw up to 80 million acres o…
Meliadine West reveals new zone
Stepout drilling at the Meliadine West gold project has led to the discovery of new mineralization west of the Tiriganiaq zone.Situated near Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Meliadine West is a joint venture am…
News – 18-DEC-00
Digital gold
The world’s oldest international money, gold, could become an important element of the world’s newest currency — digital money.Digital money systems are being developed to offer methods of payment th…
Shatter cone theory initially rejected
I found the recent Odds ‘N’ Sods by A.J. Naldrett most interesting. (See “The Shatter cones of Sudbury” in T.N.M., Nov. 13/00). It’s also a lesson we should all remember.When, in 1964, Robert Dietz pr…