The Northern Miner Indices (October 13, 2003)
North American Mining: 87.37 (-0.24)Small Producers: 80.82 (+0.69)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
News
BC approves rock quarry
The government of British Columbia has approved a $100-million aggregate quarry near Port Alberni.The proposed quarry is designed to produce 6 million tonnes of construction aggregate per year and is …
Metal traders run down gold
Gold bugs caught a chill in the first week of October: by the morning of Oct. 7, an ounce of the yellow metal was fetching US$376.20 in London markets, or US$8.30 less than a week earlier. Silver fare…
Sermon from the height of hypocrisy
As actor Toni Collette proved last week, a green religious mania is on the loose — one that threatens our reason, and much more.Collette, who first won fame in Muriel’s Wedding, told of filming part …
Axmin buoyed by Bambari results
Drilling by Axmin (AXM-V) at the Bambari property in the Central African Republic has traced mineralization at the French Camp prospect to a depth of 110 metres for at least 150 metres along a northwe…
Aquiline presses IMA for Navidad details
Just as a $4.5-million bought-deal financing was about to close, IMA Exploration (IMR-V) received a letter from Aquiline Resources (AQI-V) requesting details regarding the events and methods that led …
Improved bioleaching
Billions of years before man even dreamed of the golden riches hidden beneath the earth’s surface, naturally occurring microorganisms had been leaching valuable metals out of heaps of mineralized rubb…
Great Basin drills at Burnstone
Hunter-Dickinson-led Great Basin Gold (GBG-T) has tabled the results of a 25-hole, 19,000-metre drill program focused on Area 2 of the 400-sq.-km Burnstone property, 100 km southeast of Johannesburg, …
Daily Metal Prices (October 13, 2003)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)DateOct. 6Oct. 3Oct. 2Oct. 1Sept. 30Al Alloy1385/1385…
Dianor hunts for James Bay diamonds
Radisson, Que. — Dianor Resources (DOR-V) distinguished itself in 2001 by discovering the first diamond in Quebec’s James Bay region and has been following up on that early success with a methodical …
Delta-Kenty geophysics spots new targets (October 13, 2003)
Exploration work at the Delta-Kenty property, about 50 km west of the Raglan nickel mine in the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec, has defined several coincident conductive and magnetic bodies in previously …
Lonshi production marks watershed in the Copperbelt
Ndola, Zambia — The border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is, physically, the height of land between the Congo River and Zambezi River watersheds.On the ground, it’s scarcely…