Drills hit at Prairie Creek
Vancouver — Results from the first hole in the latest round of drilling on the Prairie Creek base metal property in the Northwest Territories has confirmed the high-grade nature of Zone 3 for operato…
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Aurora hits sulphides
Vancouver — Aurora Platinum (ARP-V) has intersected a 16.5-metre zone of low-grade nickel sulphide mineralization 465 metres below Nickel Lake on the Foy Offset property in Ontario.Hole 2 cut 1.5 met…
Francisco expands Guatemalan find (August 13, 2001)
Francisco Gold (FGX-V) has received encouraging results from the final nine holes of a third round of drilling at its wholly owned Marlin project in western Guatemala. The near-surface, oxidized zone …
Denison — then and now
Second-quarter financials issued by Denison Mines (DEN-T) paint a picture of a small but generally healthy company making it work in tough times.Denison lost $978,000 in the second quarter on revenue …
Starfield boosts Ferguson Lake (August 13, 2001)
Vancouver — Junior Starfield Resources (SRU-V) has revised its estimate for inferred resources at the Ferguson Lake copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum-palladium property, 160 km south of Baker Lake in Nun…
Atna advances Chilean copper oxide project
The results of a 22-hole, 2,480-metre program of reverse-circulation drilling have confirmed previous oxide resource estimates of the Barreal Seco copper project in north-central Chile.Atna Resources …
Staff Investment Policy (August 13, 2001)
The Northern Miner does not permit any editorial employee to file stories about companies in which the writer owns shares. Editorial employees are also not permitted to take part in initial public off…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (August 13, 2001)
DateAug.7Aug. 6Aug. 3Aug. 2Aug. 1HighLowTSE 3007772.23Holiday7744.217756.197741.37…
Spot Prices Wed. August 8, 2001
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$266.50-$1.20Silver$ 4.16-$0.08Platinum$442.00-$…
MOST ACTIVE ISSUES, AUGUST 1-7
ExchgVol(000s)HighLowCloseChangeFreeport McB*N1511811.3710.6810.98+0.22…
Freeport’s Grasberg zero-cost copper producer
Record gold sales and throughput in the second quarter have allowed Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) to post zero-unit cash costs for each pound of copper produced at the vast Grasberg mine in I…
Producer and Dealer Prices (August 13, 2001)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$1,015/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$3.65/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.27/lb.Chromium: Mid-mkt ores US$65.00/t.Cobalt: Recent trades US$9.20-10.15/lb.Copper: Comex Sept. US$0.669/lb.Indium: In…