Trans Hex sets sail
Trans Hex Group’s deep-water mining vessel, the Mv Namakwa, is no longer sailing over the Marshall Fork deposit off…
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SouthernEra recovers diamonds from Sue pipe
SouthernEra Resources’ (SUF-T) first hole into the Sue kimberlite pipe on the Yamba Lake property in the Northwest…
Shear Minerals, Golconda nab Alaskan diamonds
Edmonton-based Shear Minerals (SRM-V) and partner Golconda Resources (GA-V) report that diamonds have been recovere…
Alcoa rebounds in second quarter
Alcoa (AA-N), the world’s largest aluminum company, turned in a respectable second-quarter earnings report that ref…
Aurizon grabs TVX’s Casa Berardi stake
Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T) has acquired TVX Gold’s (TVX-T) residual interest in the Casa Berardi project in northwestern…
Birim cashes up for Ghana drilling
Vancouver — Birim Goldfields (BGI-T) has raised $500,000 through the exercise of 972,652 outstanding warrants at a…
Down from the summit
As he promised, Prime Minister Jean Chrtien kept the leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations on the message of African development. It was a great success, culminating with the summit’s …
Gold fever in BC, Part I
Since the first recorded discovery of lode gold at Mitchell Bay on the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1857, the yellow metal has been vitally important to the early development of British Columbia. Placer…
PGM markets undergo shifts: report
Last year, platinum group metals (PGM) markets continued to experience wild shifts in supply, demand, and price, a trend that is likely to continue, according to Platinum Group Metals Survey 2002. The…
Producer and Dealer Prices (July 08, 2002)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$1,425/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$3.00/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.30/lb.Chromium: Mid-mkt ores US$65.00/t.Cobalt: Recent trades US$6.75-7.70/lb.Copper: Comex Sept US$0.7625/lb.Indium: Ind…
PGM outlook good for rest of decade: Canaccord
In a recent report, Canaccord Capital mining analyst Roger Chaplin sits back and takes a look at the long-term prospects for platinum group metals and the major PGM mining stocks.He describes the PGM …
Base metals withstand US corporate scandal
Don’t panic.On the morning of Wednesday, June 26, in the wake of the latest example of gross U.S. corporate misgovernance, it would have taken a brave person to bet on base metals markets ending the w…