2003

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…

Anglo American and Gold Fields have rebuffed an offer by Anglican Archbishop Ndungane Njongonkulu to mediate in a lawsuit against the companies for alleged human rights abuses during apartheid.Anglo a…

Kinross Gold says it will lay off 75 workers at the Lupin gold mine, 80 km south of the Arctic Circle in Nunavut.The miner posted a US$13.3-million loss in the recent quarter and says the layoffs woul…

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…

U.S. stock markets advanced modestly over the five trading days May 7-13, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 index up 7.91 points at 942.30 and the Dow Jones industrial average 90.89 points higher at 8,67…

A loan from the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa will enable Etruscan Resources (EET-T) and Mountain Lake Resources (MOA-V) to expand their Tirisano alluvial diamond mine in that cou…

Vancouver — The resource sector helped Canada’s junior exchange maintain its rally over the week ended May 13. The S&P-TSX Venture Exchange composite index tacked on 12.66 points, or 1.2% of its valu…

A year after it became the world’s largest gold miner as a result of merging with Normandy Mining and Franco-Nevada Mining, Newmont Mining (NEM-T) remains as bullish as ever about the yellow metal.Spe…

A higher realized gold price enabled Cambior (CBJ-T) to reduce its loss for the first quarter of 2003, compared with the corresponding period last year.The loss amounted to US$2.3 million (or a penny …

Florida Canyon Mines, a subsidiary of Denver, Colo.-based Apollo Gold, has joined forces with the Nevada Division of Wildlife (NDOW), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Bat Conservation Internat…