Gold Funds (September 11, 2000)
Gold Funds as of August 31, 2000Dynamic MutualCentral FundNet Value$12.75$5.42Price$7…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
GREATEST VALUE TRADED, Aug. 30-Sept. 5
ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeAlcoa*N 157766 34.50 32.56 33.81 +…
Producer and Dealer Prices (September 11, 2000)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$1,750/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$3.20/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.20/lb.Chromium: Mid-mkt ores US$65.00/t.Cobalt: Recent trades US$14.20-16.00/lb.Copper: Comex Sept. US$0.9125/lb.Indium: …
Red metal gains more momentum
Copper and aluminum prices moved sharply higher during the report period Aug. 28-Sept. 1, with the former hurdling over the US$1,900-per-tonne resistance level and the latter gaining US$50 per tonne o…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (September 11, 2000)
DateSept. 5Sept. 4Sep. 1Aug. 31Aug. 30HighLowTSE 300…
Freeport to sell e-concentrates
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N), through subsidary P.T. Freeport-Indonesia (PT-FI), has developed an interactive auction format for the sale of concentrates from the Grasberg copper-gold comple…
Consolidation momentum builds
Early last summer, John Lydall of National Bank Financial predicted that the burgeoning consolidation binge taking place in the global mining industry would continue with more deals, mergers and acqui…
Phelps Dodge exits deal
Copper producer Phelps Dodge (PD-N) has withdrawn from a previously announced deal with Stratabound Minerals (SB-V), under which it would have earned an interest in the Monarca zinc project in north-e…
Eldorado transplants environmental know-how to Mexico, Brazil and Turkey
Through careful reclamation procedures at its two open-pit heap-leach gold mines in Mexico, Eldorado has continued to demonstrate high environmental standards.In October 1998, the Vancouver-based comp…
Crew Development advances Greenland gold project
Although it has been more than 1,000 years since the Vikings discovered Greenland, its mineral resources remain relatively unexplored. However, that may all change now that Crew Development (CRU-T) is…
Doing better by living better
In this country, the direction of the prevailing wind from the politically and socially powerful can always be read from the headlines of the Globe and Mail, and in environmental matters this is no di…
Diavik assessment marred by conflict
The environmental assessment and approval process for the Diavik diamond mine illustrates the conflict created by mining developments in impoverished yet relatively undisturbed, ecologically fragile r…