The editorial “Challenging Geostatistics” (T.N.M., Sept. 28-Oct. 4/98) contains many statements and implications with which I disagree. I restrict my comments here to the title and the general aim of …
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Nov. 10/98 (change from Nov. 3 in brackets):MetalStocks (tonnes)Change…
Thanks to record gold production and reduced cash costs, Richmont Mines (RIC-T) has enjoyed yet another strong quarter.For the three months ended Sept. 30, 1998, gold production reached a record high …
For the report period ended Nov. 10, the Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index inched up 3.45 points to 405.15, while the mining index added 5.48 points to finish at 300.55. The combined value of t…
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange-Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)DateNov. 10Nov. 9Nov. 6Nov. 5…
Uranium Resources (URIX-Q) is the latest casualty of the US$1 trading requirement of the Nasdaq board.The Dallas-based firm, which owns uranium properties in Texas and New Mexico, now has 90 days to r…
Indochina Goldfields (ING-T) has begun producing copper cathode at the Monywa heap-leach copper project in west-central Myanmar.Construction of the first-phase project is essentially complete, with co…
Echo Bay Mines (ECO-T) suffered a loss in the third quarter even as it tried to distance itself from last year’s massive writedowns which totalled US$300 million.The company recorded a loss of US$6 mi…
Unuk Gold (UNK-V) has changed its name to Auterra Ventures (AUW-V).
Mining companies operating in Honduras and Nicaragua escaped Hurricane Mitch with little damage and are now helping victims in those devastated countries cope with the aftermath.In Nicaragua, the stor…
The interim report of the TSE-OSC mining standards task force refers to the additive property of variances, but the president of the CIM geological society, Marcel Vallee, objects to applied statistic…
Base metal companies are not having an easy time staying in the black in these days of low metal prices, and Breakwater Resources (BWR-T) is no exception.The company posted a net loss of $10.9 million…
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