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Pacific Rim bullish over Luicho tests
Junior Pacific Rim Mining (PFG-T) has tabled encouraging results from bottle-roll tests of samples collected from its Luicho gold project in southern Peru, while noting that sampling has confirmed the…
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AGX Resources (axs-v) has changed its name to Consolidated AGX Resources (csx-v) on a 1-new-for-4-old-share basis.
Lac des les resource expected to grow
Ongoing drilling at the Lac des les palladium-platinum deposit, 85 km north of Thunder Bay, Ont., continues to expand the Roby zone.Since mid-January, North American Palladium (PDL-T) has sank 40 hol…
Emma’s ghost
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) is long-departed from this world, but the spirit of America’s most famous self-proclaimed anarchist seemed to haunt last year’s battle in Seattle against the World Trade Organ…
A friend in Babbit?
The article “Canyon Resources files ‘takings’ suit against Montana” (T.N.M., April 17-23/00) states that Canyon Resources estimates the value of the McDonald deposit could reach US$500 million.This si…
New web site will sell gold products
An international consortium wants to make the Internet a one-stop gold shop. South Africa’s AngloGold, U.S. financier J.P. Morgan and Swiss refiner Produits Artistiques de Metaux Precieux have joined …
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Diamonds, uranium outpace base metals
Canadian production of silver, primary nickel, lead, diamonds and uranium rose between February 1999 and February 2000. Losing ground over the same period were copper, gold and zinc.The statistics sho…
Crew advances globally diverse assets
In a further bid to diversify its mining assets, Crew Development (CRU-T) has acquired a 100% interest in the Pamplona sulphur deposit in the Philippines. The deposit covers 39 sq. km on the island of…
Spot Prices Wed. April 26, 2000Courtesy of Scotiabank
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$277.70-$3.70Silver$ 4.97-$0.13…
SPC posts higher earnings
Higher copper prices translated into higher profits for Southern Peru Copper (PCU-N) from its Peruvian operations in the first quarter of 2000.The average price of copper on the London Metals Exchange…