Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Denver-based Constellation Copper (ccu-t) has retained Jacobs Engineering Group to carry out a bankable feasibility study of the Terrazas copper-zinc oxide project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state.

The federal government will contribute $3 million to the cost of building an all-weather bridge across the Mackenzie River at Fort Providence, N.W.T. Upon completion, in 2006, vehicles serving mines in the area will have to pay tolls.

The consensus among manufacturers of silver-based biocides is that architectural applications in North America and Northern Europe will be the main market in the near future.

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Cambior (cbj-t) has offered to acquire all the outstanding shares of industrial-minerals miner Sequoia Minerals (seq-t), its equal partner at the Niobec niobium mine in Quebec.

Alcan (al-t) plans to save an additional US$110 million as a result of its recent, multi-billion-dollar takeover of French rival Pechiney.

Accelerated removal of waste in the first quarter has allowed Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (fcx-n) to resume mining higher-grade areas in the Grasberg open-pit mine in Papua, Indonesia.

Agnico-Eagle Mines (age-t) will acquire 12.7 million shares of Swedish-based Riddarhyttan Resources for US$10.8 million.

The British Museum has reassembled a heavy gold necklace thought to belong to Queen Boudicca, a Celtic warrior of the Iceni tribe who led a revolt against invading Romans in the Iron Age.