PEOPLE (December 31, 2001)
AMT International — Karine Simoes and Dora Santschi appointed directors.Boulder — Nelson Baker appointed vice-president exploration and John Magee appointed vp corporate development.Crew Developm…
2001
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (December 31, 2001)
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Sulliden’s drills stall at Mario (December 31, 2001)
Nearly out of cash, Sulliden Exploration (sue-t) has suspended a 3,500-metre drilling campaign on the Mario base metal property, 50 km southwest of Huancayo, Peru.Sullivan had drilled about 1,553 metr…
Gold Funds (December 31, 2001)
Dundee Precious MetalsCentral FundNet Value$13.47$5.41Price$9.30$5.16Discount30.964.6Value$94,293,000$105,193,131…
News – 31-DEC-01 (December 31, 2001)
Geomaque restructures, gets new board (December 31, 2001)
A financial restructuring at Geomaque Explorations (GEO-T) will see the company’s principal lender get a large net cash-flow interest on the Vueltas del Rio gold mine in Honduras.Geomaque reached an a…
Exploration companies tightened belts in 2001
With prices for base and precious metals sagging, funding for exploration has become scarce, a fact borne out by Halifax-based Metals Economic Group’s latest study of exploration budgets for 679 compa…
More drilling slated for Boyongan
Vancouver — The purchase of an additional 10% stake in Philex Mining’s (PGI-V) Boyongan copper-gold prospect in the Philippines has propelled Anglo American (AUUK-Q) to step up the pace of drilling.T…
Xenolix to buy back shares
An agreed settlement in an administrative action by the Arizona Corporations Commission will require precious-metal “nanotechnology” company Xenolix Technologies (xtci-o) to buy back shares from some …
Newmont drops RDN (December 31, 2001)
Vancouver — Disappointing results from a second round of drilling on the RDN gold-silver property in northern British Columbia have prompted Newmont Mining (NEM-N) to stop its work program.The proper…
Majors sink with Metal Prices
An easing of base and precious metal prices during the week before Christmas resulted in a broad decline in producers stocks.Southern Peru Copper was off 14 to US$11.16 as it placed US$73 million wor…
Rio Tinto drops Mogote
London-based Rio Tinto (RTP-N) has decided to drop its option to earn up to a 70% interest in IMA Explorations’ (IMR-V) Mogote copper-gold property in Argentina’s San Juan province.The major had an op…