Gold Funds (May 06, 2002)
Gold Funds as at April 25, 2002Dundee Precious MetalsCentral FundNet Value$21.55$5.77Price$15.95$6.00…
News
More gold found at Assean Lake
Vancouver — International Curator Resources (IC-T) has intersected a new gold zone at its Assean lake Property, near Thompson Man.Hole 86 intersected 0.71 gram gold over 13.8 metres starting at a dow…
Barrick eyes RDN (May 06, 2002)
Vancouver — Picking up where Newmont Mining (NEM-N) left off, Barrick Gold (ABX-T) has inked a letter of intent to earn a 75% stake in Rimfire Minerals’ (RFM-V) RDN property in northwestern Br…
Exchange Rates (May 06, 2002)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)DateApril 30April 29April 26April 25April 24US$ in C$1.56781.56621.5632…
CORRECTION – Eldorado Gold
Two articles appearing in The Northern Miner in recent weeks, both dealing with Eldorado Gold (ELD-T), require correction.The article “Eldorado expands zone at Kisladag” (T.N.M., April 29/02) was an o…
Ivanhoe cranks up Korean mine
Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T) has begun milling stockpiled ore at its Eunsan mine in South Korea.The stockpiled material — 26,000 tonnes of oxidized gold and silver ore averaging 13.2 grams gold and 600 gram…
Minotaur cuts high grades
Vancouver — Junior Minotaur Resources has tabled impressive results from the Prominent Hill prospect at the Mt. Woods joint venture in southern Australia.Hole 5 was drilled 200 metres east of hole 3 …
New e-mail for TNM (May 06, 2002)
The Northern Miner’s editorial department has a new e-mail address: tnm@northernminer.comFor circulation inquiries, please contact us at northernminer2@no…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (May 06, 2002)
DateApril 30April 29April 26April 25April 24HighLowTSE 3007663.397582.457629.627686.297713.41…
Bloom commentary misses mark
Lynda Bloom’s commentary, Fusion key step in fire assaying for PGEs (T.N.M., Feb. 25-March 3/02), is plagiarism at its worst.Bloom is brazen enough to start her article with “Fire assay is the preferr…
NAME CHANGES (May 06, 2002)
Aquest Minerals (AQU-V) has changed its name to Aquest Explorations (AQZ-V) on a 1-new-for-10-old-share basis.
Flin Flon hosts conference
The Mid Canada Mining Conference, slated for May 12-15 in Flin Flon, Man., will showcase Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting’s 777 projects, with additional technical papers on uranium, nickel, gold and diam…