Oil sands spell self-sufficiency for Canada
The recoverable portion of Canada’s crude bitumen resources, a black tarry hydrocarbon that coats the sands and carbonate sedimentary formations in the Athabasca, Cold Lake and Peace River regions of …
2002
Suncor expands with Project Millennium
Suncor Energy (SU-T), Canada’s third-largest integrated oil company, is in the midst of a massive expansion of its Oil Sands operation, north of Fort McMurray, Alta., a move that should see the compan…
Uranium Power targets basement rocks for oil
Vancouver — Uranium Power (URMP-C) is searching for oil under the Athabasca Oil Sands near Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta.The Athabasca Oil Sands deposit is the world’s largest hydrocarbon deposi…
Majors come up empty in Otish Mountains
The Canadian diamond division of BHP Billiton (BHP-N) has failed to turn up any significant results following a first round of drilling that tested 18 various pipe-like geophysical anomalies on Majesc…
Eldorado expands zone at Kisladag
Vancouver — The first 20 holes of a recently completed 29 hole drill program on Eldorado Gold’s (ELD-T) Kisladag project in west-central Turkey has expanded the area of known mineralization.Designed …
Research for the masses
Last week we examined the unhappy case of Merrill Lynch, which is now the subject of an inquiry by New York State securities regulators and prosecutors. Evidence presented by the state has called the …
News – 29-APR-02
Silver output soars for Coeur
Vancouver — Production from both the newly commissioned Cerro Bayo mine in Chile and the recently acquired Martha mine in Argentina has Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N) set to increase silver output by 50…
Gold price fortifies Placer’s quarter
Vancouver — Higher gold prices and lower cash costs propelled Placer Dome (PDG-T) to a healthy profit in the first quarter of 2002, despite an 8% drop in production.The major earned US$43 million (or…
Bright Star targets platinum prospect
Vancouver — Bright Star Ventures (BSV-V) has outlined exploration targets on its 49-sq.-km Tulameen platinum project in the Cascade mountains of southwest British Columbia, about 26 km northwest of P…
Nickel flexes muscles
Base metals prices staged a technical rally that soon ran out of steam during the report period April 15-19. For the time being, price action in copper, gold and zinc appears to be taking place betwee…
Exploration continues at Kidd Creek
Texasgulf will undertake a major exploration program this year in the vicinity of its Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario. This follows in the wake of its recent discovery of zinc-lead-silver minerali…