Until the Lynne discovery was announced last spring, Noranda’s (TSE) substantial exploration efforts in the Midwest and Appalachian districts of the U.S. were unfamiliar to most Canadians. But, as the…
Turbulence is forecast for the nickel market this year but for the rest of the decade, demand should help sustain a healthy price. It was in 1988 that the nickel price went wild, topping US$10 per lb….
Where is gold going? How do you weigh the factors in your forecast? Before trying to forecast future events, it is often beneficial to look at the past. In the 1980s, gold demonstrated its volatile na…
The turbulent economic times of the 1980s may have undermined the constitution of some Canadian major mining companies, but this wasn’t the case for Teck (TSE) which instead experienced a pivotal deca…
The Goldstrike gold project in Nevada is expected to keep American Barrick Resources in the black for a long time to come. A favorite of investors, the Toronto-based mining company has been the top-pe…
Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting (TSE), the wholly owned subsidiary of New York-based Inspiration Resources (NYSE), is well known as Canada’s fourth largest producer of copper and zinc. In 1989, HudBay’s …
Like producers of most base metals, zinc producers have enjoyed three years of strong markets and exceptionally high prices. Based on past experience, however, recent high prices may turn out to have …
Mineral exploration is a highly competitive business, yet the key to success may be to combine the knowledge of the competition with that of your own. If you avail yourself in some way of all the peop…
World crude steel production in 1990, at 769.6 million tonnes, was 2% below the record high of 785.1 million tonnes posted in 1989, preliminary estimates of the International Iron and Steel Institute …
Outbreak of war in the Persian Gulf near the start of the year, pitting a global alliance of nations under the auspices of the United Nations against Iraq, made an already volatile market even more sk…
A major factor in the near- term growth of international gold producer Placer Dome is an interest in two large mines, Porgera and Misima, in Papua New Guinea. Total production at Porgera is expected t…
Caught between the opposing forces of slowing demand and tight supply conditions, this year’s nickel markets are likely to be turbulent. But, after spending the past decade eliminating excess capacity…
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