Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Taylor to step aside

Placer Dome CEO Jay Taylor will retire at the end of September, ending a 5-year stint at the helm of the world’s sixth-largest gold producer.


China changing steel market

In 2003, world crude steel production reached a record high of 962 million tons. This year, the billion-ton production level will be eclipsed.


Pacific Rim aims to expand El Dorado

With the Denton-Rawhide gold-silver mine slated for closure next year, Pacific Rim Mining (PMU-T) is forging ahead with plans to advance its wholly owned El Dorado gold project in El Salvador.




Some capital news Washington Agreement

It was good news for the gold industry that the European Central Bank and its member central banks, plus the Swiss and Swedish central banks, renewed the Central Bank Gold Agreement. It wasn’t, however, an enormous surprise.


Doe Run to close plant

Doe Run Co. intends to shut down its lead smelter in Herculaneum, Mo., for two weeks in late April/early May to replace ventilation ducts on its furnaces.


JQA extended 100 metres

Drilling by Canarc Resource (CCM-T) at the Benzdorp property in Suriname has extended the known length of the JQA gold-copper stockwork by a further 100 metres.



Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (March 29, 2004)


Chinese metal demand accelerates

Yet again defying consensus predictions of a slowdown, metals demand appears to have accelerated in the first two months of 2004.


Tensions drive safe-haven investments

Vancouver — Terrorist retaliation fears against the U.S. over Israel’s shocking assassination of Hamas’s spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, helped fuel bond and bullion prices over the week ended March 23. The TSX Venture Exchange S&P composi…


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