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News September 13, 2004

New bid, same response (September 13, 2004)

Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) has told its shareholders to reject the renewed takeover offer from Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N). The company also says any shares that have already been tendered should be withdr…

News September 13, 2004

More gold reserves at Chirano

Vancouver — An updated independent reserve estimate for Red Back Mining‘s (RBI-V) Chirano gold project in southwestern Ghana indicates more than 1 million oz. gold. As a result, the mine life is now projected to be eight years.

News September 13, 2004

First Nickel buoyed by Dundonald

First Nickel (FNI-T) has intersected significant nickel on its Dundonald nickel property, 60 km east of Timmins, Ont.

News September 13, 2004

Twenty-Five Years Ago / September 1979

Kirkland witnesses rush…

News September 13, 2004

United Nations report in doubt

As an old hand of the Union Minire du Haut Katanga, I spent several months in the area, and I find the United Nations report (T.N.M., July 30-Aug. 5/04) highly misleading. There is almost no risk with natural radioactivity. In the 1940s and ’50s,…

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New resources at Ocampo

Gammon Lake Resources (GAM-T) has announced a new gold-silver resource estimate for the Ocampo project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state. The project contains 1.85 million oz. gold and 76.7 million oz. silver (3 million gold-equivalen…

News, People in Mining September 13, 2004

Goldcorp’s Rob McEwen eyes the exits

Citing the ever-increasing rigours of governmental and regulatory compliance, Goldcorp (G-T) CEO Robert McEwen plans to vacate the helm of the company he has led for 18 years.

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Adastra lines up Umicore at Kolwezi (September 13, 2004)

Adastra Minerals (AMZ-T) and Umicore are in talks aimed at ironing out a long-term supply deal at the former’s Kolwezi copper-cobalt tailings project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

News September 13, 2004