Alan Coope
Alan Coope, founder of the Ottawa-based Association of Exploration Geochemists and former director of geochemistry for Newmont Mining, has died. He was 66.Coope received his doctorate degree in applie…
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On-line procurer aims for 1 billion
Quadrem, the mining industry’s largest on-line procurement service, expects to rack up US$1 billion in transactions this year.Moreover, the company expects the value of transactions to escalate to US$…
Metal Prices (August 27, 2001)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)DateAugust 21August 20August 17August 16August…
MOST ACTIVE ISSUES, AUGUST 15-21
ExchgVol(000s)HighLowCloseChangeAlcoa*N 10919 38.50 36.05 37.40 + 0.49…
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…
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…