Trading Summary (July 24, 2001)
More earnings woes from tech stocks south of the border sent shares of Nortel Networks to a new 52-week low on Tues…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
APP hits 6 million oz.
Vancouver — The results from a 25,700-metre drill program has prompted South African-based Gold Fields (GOLD-Q) an…
Drills keep turning at Phouc Son
Vancouver — The latest drill results from the Bai Go portion of the Phuoc Son gold property in Vietnam have expand…
Inmet profitable in second quarter
Better operating results and poorer metal prices combined to keep Inmet Mining’s (IMN-T) second-quarter earnings ro…
PCS plans $70-million expansion
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT-T), the world’s leading producer of fertilizer, plans to spend $70 million to exp…
More than 100 feared dead in mine blast
The death toll is 16 people at an illegally operated coal mine in China’s southeastern province of Jiangsu. An expl…
Expo-Ungava yields more PGM
Having taken another look at some assay pulps from four holes collared by a previous operator on the Expo-Ungava co…
Trading Summary (July 23, 2001)
The oil and gas sector stood out from the pack, gaining 115.77 points, or 1.4%, helping to soften the blow of wider…
Philex results fail to impress
Vancouver — Despite having all the earmarks of a significant find at its Boyongan copper-gold prospect on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, shares of Philex Gold (PGI-V) headed lower followi…
Chinese antimony exports down: report
A new report says official Chinese exports of antimony fell by 67% year-on-year in the first four months of 2001.The Economics of Antimony 2001 (9th edition), compiled by London-based Roskill Informat…
Ghana ponders dropping Ashanti’s “golden share”
Denver — Ghana’s Mining Commission has recommended that the government reduce its involvement in the gold industry, by scrapping state participation in mining operations and dropping its “golden shar…
Mampon looking good for Ashanti, Birim
Drilling by Ashanti Goldfields (ASL-N) at the Mampon gold deposit in Ghana continues to yield long, gold-rich intersections.The deposit lies in a 40-sq.-km portion of the Dunkwa property, spun off to …