Christopher James drills copper showing
Kamloops, B.C.-based Christopher James Gold (CJG-V) is set to drill a new high-grade copper showing on its Silver Lake property, 17 km northwest of Little Fort in the same province.A 1-metre-wide zone…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Global warming separate from Kyoto pact
I have found the editorials in The Northern Miner on global warming over the past year or so to be objectionable. I sense a failure to separate the issue of global warming and its causes, on the one h…
Precious metals get trading site
A consortium of mining companies, refiners and industrial users of gold, silver and platinum group metals will form an Internet-based precious metals marketplace.The site, to be known as Electronic Pr…
Yukon signs road pact with junior
The Yukon government has reached a road maintenance agreement with North American Tungsten (NAT) which supports the reopening of the CanTung mine.The Department of Community and Transportation Service…
Energy crunch cramps Eldorado’s performance
Vancover — Power restrictions in Brazil have slowed production at Eldorado Gold’s (ELD-T) Sao Bento mine and pushed the junior minor into the red.During the recent second quarter, Eldorado tabled a n…
Gold Funds (August 13, 2001)
Gold Funds as of August 2, 2001Dundee Precious MetalsCentral FundNet Value$13.30$5.14Price$9.35$4.69…
Drills hit at Prairie Creek
Vancouver — Results from the first hole in the latest round of drilling on the Prairie Creek base metal property in the Northwest Territories has confirmed the high-grade nature of Zone 3 for operato…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (August 13, 2001)
DateAug.7Aug. 6Aug. 3Aug. 2Aug. 1HighLowTSE 3007772.23Holiday7744.217756.197741.37…
Freeport’s Grasberg zero-cost copper producer
Record gold sales and throughput in the second quarter have allowed Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) to post zero-unit cash costs for each pound of copper produced at the vast Grasberg mine in I…
Hedging lifts Aur’s bottom line
Steady production and beneficial hedging allowed Aur Resouces (AUR-T) to pocket a tidy US$8-million profit during the second quarter.Aur’s share of combined second-quarter production from the Quebrada…
‘Rural cleansing’ gets media attention
When the Wall Street Journal lines up hammer and nail to drive home a point, a hard bang or two usually follows. Earlier this summer, the prestigious newspaper hit the nail on the head when it reporte…
Francisco expands Guatemalan find (August 13, 2001)
Francisco Gold (FGX-V) has received encouraging results from the final nine holes of a third round of drilling at its wholly owned Marlin project in western Guatemala. The near-surface, oxidized zone …