Twenty-Five Years Ago / February 1979
Black pushes for rapid growthWithin two months of the entry of Toronto financier and industrialist Conrad Black and his brother, G. Montagu, to the board of directors of Hollinger Mines, the company a…
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Unstable gold market to continue
Gold ended the week Jan. 19-23 on a soft note, after late selling took prices to a close of US$407.80 per oz. However, with the U.S. dollar firming further, supported by comments from U.S. Treasury Se…
Uranium giant helped by gold
Increased earnings from its gold business helped Cameco () boost fourth-quarter earnings by 36% despite flat revenues.During the three months ended Dec. 31, 2003, Cameco earned $30 million (or 53 per…
Casa Berardi extensions take shape under Aurizon
Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T) has wrapped up a drill program of widely spaced holes on the extension of zone 113 and zones 118-120 at the Casa Berardi gold project, 100 km north of Rouyn-Noranda, Que.Results …
Daily Metal Prices (February 02, 2004)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)DateJan. 27Jan. 26Jan. 23Jan. 22Jan. 21Al Alloy1497/152…
Pacific Minerals expands 217 project
Vancouver — Pacific Minerals (PMZ-V) has tabled a new, independent estimate of the gold resource at the 217 open-pit project in Inner Mongolia.The estimate, prepared by Westervelt Engineering of Vanc…
Rio Tinto vs. AIDS
London-based Rio Tinto has developed and implemented a global HIV-AIDS strategy in response to the social and economic issues related to the life-threatening disease.About 40 million people worldwide …
Celtic explores Malaumanda project
Drill crews are testing along strike and downdip of a recently discovered zone of mineralization on Celtic Minerals’ (CME-V) Lodon Tops prospect, part of the Malaumanda project in Papua New Guinea.The…
Southern Rio cuts more gold at 3Ts
The program was designed to extend and define the Ted vein mineralization, as well as provide data to calculate an inferred resource. At last report, the Ted Vein had been defined along a strike lengt…
Aurelian cuts more gold at Condor (February 02, 2004)
Vancouver — Aurelian Resources () has tabled encouraging results from drilling completed late last year at the Condor project in southeastern Ecuador.The company sunk 14 diamond drill holes on two of…
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IMC, Cargill create titan
The largest deal over the report period ending Jan. 27 was the announcement of a merger between Illinois-based fertilizer giant IMC Global and the fertilizer division of the secretive agri-business co…