Trading Summary (August 04, 2004)
The Toronto Stock Exchange shed 1.2% to end at 8,362.96 as all of its subindices ended in the red on Wednesday. The…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Wide massive sulphide intersection at High Lake West
Recent drill holes at the High Lake West Zone base metal deposit in Nunavut have intersected wide intervals of mass…
Partners expand Essakan resource (August 03, 2004)
Orezone Resources (OZN-T) and Gold Fields (GFI-N) have updated the resource estimate for the Essakan main zone at t…
New gold zones found at Jinlonggou (August 03, 2004)
Afcan Mining (AFK-T) continues to expand the resource at its Jinlonggou gold deposit in the west-central Chinese pr…
AfriOre aims to turn coal to gold (August 03, 2004)
Afriore (AFO-T) plans to sell its stake in one South African coal asset plus half of another to help develop its ex…
Pine Valley debuts as coal producer
Vancouver – Six years after receiving approval, Pine Valley Mining (PVM-V) has finally begun commercial-scale coal…
Northgate ups earnings, optimizing Kemess
Vancouver – Mid-tier gold miner Northgate Minerals (NGX-T) delivered greatly improved net earnings of US$9 million,…
Mining stocks weaken
U.S. stock markets edged lower in the reporting period July 21-27, and for the most part mining equities — in both precious and base metals — edged along with them. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 0.6%, falling 63.93 points to 10,085.14…
Falco flies high in Q2
Higher metal prices offset lower production and increased mining costs for
Goldcorp fattens nest egg
Cambior rides Rosebel to record (August 02, 2004)
Full production at the new Rosebel gold mine in Suriname helped boost
Alcoa boosts output at smelter
Alcoa Aluminio, a wholly owned Brazilian subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based Alcoa, plans to boost its share of aluminum capacity by 30%, or 63,000 tonnes per year, at the Sao Luis (Alumar) aluminum smelter in Brazil.