AurionGold fires parting shot as deadline looms
Placer Dome (PDG-T) has lowered the broker inducement fee it will pay in relation to its bid for all of the shares…
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Trading Summary (August 06, 2002)
The gold issues led the S&P/TSX Composite Index 17.31 points lower to 6,519.16 points on Tuesday. The move brought…
Producer and Dealer Prices (August 05, 2002)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$1,720/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$2.95/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.30/lb.Chromium: Mid-mkt ores US$65.00/t.Cobalt: Recent trades US$6.50-7.50/lb.Copper: Comex Sept US$0.6925/lb.Indium: Ind…
Nine miners survive underground ordeal
Nine men were rescued without serious injury after spending 77 hours trapped in a water-filled stope of an underground coal mine in Pennsylvania, 90 km southeast of Pittsburgh.As much as 225,000 cubic…
Exchange Rates (August 05, 2002)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)DateJuly 30July 29July 26July 25July 24US$ in C$1.57311.57221.58651.5…
Sherritt enjoys coal-fired quarter
Higher realized nickel prices helped Sherritt International (S-T) to improved second-quarter net earnings of $24.6 million.The profit, which translates into 15 per diluted share, is a marked improvem…
AngloGold trims hedge
Eyeing a strengthening gold price, AngloGold (AU-N) trimmed its hedge book by another 2.4 million oz., to 10.5 million oz., during the second quarter.The move, which followed a 1.7-million-oz. reducti…
Penasquito continuity confirmed (August 05, 2002)
Vancouver — The latest assay results from a recently completed 6,900-metre drill program on the Penasquito base metal property in Mexico have prompted Western Copper Holdings (WTC-T) to drill an addi…
Starfield bullish at Ferguson Lake
Vancouver — Starfield Resources (SRU-V) reports encouraging results from stepout and infill drilling at its Ferguson Lake nickel/copper/ cobalt/platinum-group-metal project in Nunavut.A stepout hole …
Freewest finds
Surface drift prospecting by Freewest Resources Canada (FWR-V) has turned up angular boulders with high gold grades at the Smoke Lake property in the Hemlo area of north-central Ontario.Smoke Lake, a …
Policies aim to strengthen Canada’s north
The federal government has introduced policies designed to strengthen standards for environmental protection through the reclamation of producing mine sites.The policies were developed in consultation…
Looking out for shareholders
The arrest of John Rigas and two of his sons, all former executives of insolvent Adelphia Communications, on securities fraud charges, and revelations that executives at Qwest Communications Internati…