Northern Miner Indices (June 05, 2000)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick Gold…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Twin Gold Funds program
Armed with $8 million from a recent financing, Twin Gold Mining (TWG-T) is gearing up for a major exploration program at its Torngat diamond project, on the east side of Ungava Bay in northern Quebec….
LME Warehouse Levels (June 05, 2000)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, May 30/99 (change from May 23 in brackets):MetalStock(tonnes)Change…
Spot Prices Wed. May 31, 2000
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$272.25-$1.65Silver$ 4.90-$0.08…
Dow rises as metals fall
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 104.86 points, or 1%, to close at 10,527.13 for the report period ended May 30 on the strength of a late-week surge by the Nasdaq.Gold miners were mixed as the go…
MEETINGS (June 05, 2000)
June 5 Broadlands — annual, generalJune 5 Weda Bay — annual, specialJune 6 Ascot Energy — annual, generalJune 6 New Doly Varden — annual, specialJune 6…
Canadian Zinc galvanizes board
A newly elected board has taken over the helm of Canadian Zinc (CZN-T) in hopes of steering the Prairie Creek zinc project in the Northwest Territories closer to production.Mining engineer Malcolm Swa…
EXCHANGE RATES (June 05, 2000)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)DateMay 30May 29May 26May 25May 24…
Kinross expands Wheaton River’s Goose Lake
An ongoing 40-hole, 11,000-metre drilling program by Kinross Gold (K-T) at the George Lake project in Nunavut is significantly extending the project’s Goose Lake deposit. The property is held by Wheat…
Gold Funds (June 05, 2000)
Gold Funds as of May 25, 2000Dynamic MutualCentral FundNet Value$12.47$5.54Price$7.40…
NAP
Rio Algom (ROM-T) has launched a 2,000-metre drill program on the South Findlay base metal property, near Kimberley in southeastern British Columbia.Considered prospective for sedimentary exhalative d…
Gary Howell
Gary Howell, executive director for the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) since February 1994, has died. He was 54.Howell was a geologist with more than 27 years experience in mining….