PEOPLE — Aquest (May 03, 1999)
Robert Young appointed director.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
GOLD FUNDS (May 03, 1999)
Gold Funds as of April 22, 1999BGRCentralNet Value$14.055.72Price$9.40$5.
BC mines receive safety awards
The government of British Columbia has awarded 13 mines in the province for their safe operating practices.For the second consecutive year, the winner of the John Ash Safety Award, presented to the op…
Gold Fields to merge with Driefontein
Shareholders of both Driefontein Consolidated (DRFNY-Q) and Gold Fields (GLDFY-O) have given the nod to a proposed merger of the companies into a larger and more diversified Gold Fields.Driefontein op…
BYG heads into receivership
Low gold prices have proved too much for B.Y.G. Natural Resources (BYG-T), which has gone into receivership and been suspended from trading on the Toronto and Alberta stock exchanges.B.Y.G. says the r…
Atna encouraged by results from the DR
The results from a first phase of widely spaced drilling on the San Antonio I concession in the Dominican Republic leads Atna Resources (ATN-T) to believe it might have intersected the upper edge of a…
SouthernEra strikes platinum, diamond deals
Nothing if not creative in its diversification plans, SouthernEra Resources (SUF-T) has announced deals to take over a development-stage platinum project in South Africa and to explore for diamonds in…
Cominco looking for new deal at Highland
The Highland Valley copper mine in southern British Columbia will close its doors on May 15, unless the owners can negotiate significant wage and power concessions to keep the mine operating profitabl…
Diavik explores Pure Gold North
A ground geophysical survey program is testing up to three high-priority airborne anomalies on the Pure Gold North claims, 55 km east of the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories.Diavik Diam…
Royal arranges royalty conversion
Royal Gold (RGLD-Q) has converted its 20% net profits interest in Nevada’s South Pipeline deposit into a gross smelter royalty on both that and the main Pipeline deposits.Situated in the state’s centr…
Creditors draw curtain on Royal Oak — Witte attributes collapse to low metal prices, bad luck
The Ontario Court (General Division) finally shut down the show at gold producer Royal Oak Mines (RYO-T), putting the company into receivership when creditors could not agree on a restructuring deal.T…
LATIN AMERICA — 2002: a Peruvian mining odyssey — Antamina faces economic, social, environmental challenges
Augusto Baertl, president of Minera Antamina, is not one to downplay the challenges faced by the consortium of three Canadian companies developing the huge Antamina copper-zinc deposit in the Peruvian…