Starfield expands mineralization
Vancouver — Starfield Resources (SRU-V) has expanded the West zone of mineralization on the Ferguson Lake polymetallic property in Nunavut.Results from the last 10 holes of the current drilling campa…
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New zone at Campbell Red Lake
Already a highly profitable and important young gold producer, Dome-directed Campbell Red Lake Mines has been opening up an entirely new type of deposit that could well establish it as one of the rank…
News – 27-AUG-01 (August 27, 2001)
NOTE TO TABLE USERSOwing to technical difficulties, stock tables for the period August 15-21 do not include trading on August 16. Trading volumes and weekly changes will be affected but closing prices…
South Africa’s mining lobby
South African Chamber of Mines is an organization that exists not only to conduct wage netotiations on behalf of its mining industry members. Indeed the chamber’s primary function is to act in the pub…
Explosion at Ukraine coal mine claims 47
The death toll following a methane gas explosion at a coal mine in the Donetsk region of western Ukraine has risen to 47 after a fire burning about 1 km below the surface prevented rescuers from reach…
The Northern Miner — North American Mining Index (August 27, 2001)
74.32 (+1.48)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
The Northern Miner — Small Producers Index (August 27, 2001)
46.62 (+0.83)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
LME Warehouse Levels (August 27, 2001)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Aug. 21/01 (change from Aug. 14 in brackets):MetalStock (tonnes)ChangeAluminium674100…
Gold Funds (August 27, 2001)
Gold Funds as of August 16, 2001Dundee Precious MetalsCentral FundNet Value$13.80$5.18Price$9.85$4.90…
Spot Prices Wed. August 12, 2001
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$277.25+$0.90Silver$ 4.17-$0.07Platinum$447.00+$…
Interest rate cut falls flat
Denver — Financial markets sank in response to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest quarter-point interest rate cut, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down 238.03 points, or 2.3%, for the report …
Magistral drilling pulls high-grade copper
Vancouver — Junior Inca Pacific Resources (IP-V) and its partner, Anaconda Peru, have completed 80% of a 14,000-metre drill program at the Magistral copper porphyry-skarn property in the South Americ…