Goldcorp’s Red Lake Canada’s largest gold mine
Move over Golden Giant and Eskay Creek. The new Red Lake mine, owned and operated by Toronto-based Goldcorp (G-T), has become Canada’s largest gold operation, based on this year’s revised production e…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Getting certified in BC
The question of how to certify mineral assay laboratories and analysts has been a hot topic in the industry over the past few years. In British Columbia, a successful program of assayer registration h…
Gold regains lost ground
Denver — The Dow Jones industrial average sunk 227.46 points, or 2%, to close at 10,948.38 for the report period ended June 12, while spot gold on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchan…
Metal Prices (June 18, 2001)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)DateJune 12June 11June 8June 7June 6Aluminium1467/1487…
Shore resumes work at Star
Junior Shore Gold (SGF-V) has resumed drilling on its wholly owned Star kimberlite property, 60 km east of Prince Albert, Sask.The 7-hole program is designed to increase the level of confidence in the…
Boyongan gets bigger
Vancouver — Impressive drill results keep rolling in from the Boyongan copper-gold prospect at the North property…
Weda Bay advances Halmahera (June 15, 2001)
Vancouver-based Weda Bay Minerals (WDA-T) has tabled a positive prefeasibility study at its laterite nickel-cobalt…
Rhonda confirms large kimberlite body
Vancouver — The first three holes of a planned five-hole drilling campaign have cut wide zones of kimberlite from…
Klondike seeks Sullivan-type deposit
Vancouver — With Cominco’s (CLT-T) prolific Sullivan base metal mine slated for closure later this year, Klondike…
Stillwater suffers third fatality
A Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada employee has been killed as a result of an accident at Stillwater Mining’s…
Crew ups stake in Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific Resources (APQ-T) has completed a private placement of more than 5.6 million units at 55 apiece for t…
Rio Tinto takes aim at Canada
Robert Wilson, chairman of London-based Rio Tinto (RTP-N), has declared that he sees an expanding future for his co…