Life signs for base metals
During the report period Aug. 13-17, the base metals complex put in its strongest performance since late May, which suggests that the long downtrend in prices may be turning at last.Because the bulk o…
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Canadian Arrow has quite a history
I searched the Internet for information about shares in a mine called Golden Arrow Mines Limited. My father lived in New York when he was a kid. He got some shares in this company from his mother befo…
Placer Dome cuts exploration, outlines strategy for growth
The street-driven notion that success should be measured only in ounces has fallen out of favour in the gold business, and Placer Dome (PDG-T), like most of its peers, intends to measure success with …
Starfield expands mineralization
Vancouver — Starfield Resources (SRU-V) has expanded the West zone of mineralization on the Ferguson Lake polymetallic property in Nunavut.Results from the last 10 holes of the current drilling campa…
Radius drills Lupita
Vancouver — Junior Radius Explorations (RDU-V) has tabled low-grade results from two more holes at the Lupita zone on its Tambor gold project in Guatemala. The Simon Ridgway-led company is now drilli…
New zone at Campbell Red Lake
Already a highly profitable and important young gold producer, Dome-directed Campbell Red Lake Mines has been opening up an entirely new type of deposit that could well establish it as one of the rank…
News – 27-AUG-01 (August 27, 2001)
NOTE TO TABLE USERSOwing to technical difficulties, stock tables for the period August 15-21 do not include trading on August 16. Trading volumes and weekly changes will be affected but closing prices…
Six undergrads get KEGS scholarships
Six undergraduate students at four Canadian universities will receive scholarships from the KEGS Foundation, the scholarship foundation of the Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society.Geophysics stude…
Kazakstan to host conference
Almaty, the former capital city of Kazakstan, will host KazMin 2001, an international exhibition and conference on mining exploration and equipment. The event unfolds Sept. 5-7 at the Atakent Exhibiti…
South Africa’s mining lobby
South African Chamber of Mines is an organization that exists not only to conduct wage netotiations on behalf of its mining industry members. Indeed the chamber’s primary function is to act in the pub…
Explosion at Ukraine coal mine claims 47
The death toll following a methane gas explosion at a coal mine in the Donetsk region of western Ukraine has risen to 47 after a fire burning about 1 km below the surface prevented rescuers from reach…
The Northern Miner — North American Mining Index (August 27, 2001)
74.32 (+1.48)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…