Markets dive after terrorist attacks
Vancouver — Canada’s junior exchange was hovering around the 3000-mark before trading was halted on Sept. 11, shortly after horrendous terrorist attacks in New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. The CD…
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Starfield boosts West zone (September 17, 2001)
Vancouver — Undeterred by low copper and nickel prices, junior Starfield Resources (SRU-V) continues to extend the mineralization at the West zone on the Ferguson Lake nickel-copper-cobalt-PGM projec…
New zone found at Shelby (September 17, 2001)
Vancouver — Some 6.4 km northeast of the Powder Hill showing and only 12 km north of the Lac des les mine, New Millennium Metals (PGM-V) has uncovered a new platinum-palladium-gold zone on the Shelb…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (September 17, 2001)
DateSept. 11Sept. 10Sept. 7Sept. 6Sept. 5HighLowTSE 3007048.80…
LME Warehouse Levels (September 17, 2001)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Sept. 11/01 (change from Sept. 4 in brackets):MetalStock (tonnes)ChangeAluminium673650…
Producer and Dealer Prices (September 17, 2001)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$1,100/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$3.60/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.27/lb.Chromium: Mid-mkt ores US$65.00/t.Cobalt: Recent trades US$8.85-10.25/lb.Copper: Comex Dec. US$0.657/lb.
Metal Prices (September 17, 2001)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)DateSept. 11Sept. 10Sept. 7Sept. 6Sept. 5…
IMA tests Peruvian gold prospect
Junior IMA Exploration (IMR-V) has launched a 1,500-metre diamond drill program on a gold-enriched sulphide showing at its Rio Tabaconas property in northwestern Peru.The first pass of drilling will t…
Lac Knife at feasibility stage
Fermont, Que. — Industrial miner Mazarin (MAZ-T) and its American manufacturing partner Graftech are carrying out a feasibility study of the Lac Knife graphite deposit in the hopes that, within a few…
Breakwater tables Langlois feasibility study (September 14, 2001)
An independent feasibility study, focusing on Zone 97 at Breakwater Resources’ (BWR-T) Langlois zinc mine near Val…
Antamina cuts forecasts
Vancouver — Some two months after shipping its first load of concentrate, due to falling metal prices the massive…
Inco to close Voisey’s camp
Nickel giant Inco (N-T) has announced that, as the site exploration program at the Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper-cobal…