Trading Summary (September 22, 2003)
Toronto stocks were mainly weaker on Monday, as the TSX Composite index fell 35.70 points to 7,566.51. But with the…
News
Malartic Sud drilling delivers goods at Croinor (September 22, 2003)
An 81-hole drilling program by South-Malartic Exploration (MSU-V) is expanding the known mineralization at the Croi…
Todd Bruce joins Crystallex
After resigning as president of Iamgold (IMG-T) in January following the company’s merger with royalty firm Repadre…
Juniors team up in Philippines
Vancouver With a drill rig turning on the Lobo property and metallurgical test work planned for the nearby Archan…
Editorial Cartoon (September 22, 2003)
Pacific NW cuts high grade at River Valley
Vancouver — Pacific North West Capital (PFN-T) has intersected impressive intervals of platinum and palladium at its River Valley project, 60 km northeast of Sudbury, Ont.The project is a 50-50 joint…
The Northern Miner Indices (September 22, 2003)
North American Mining: 89.26 (-0.81)Small Producers: 88.39 (-3.31)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Trendy trinkets and exotic accessories
Take a peek into a jewelry store, and diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires are pretty much all you’re likely to see. These are the gemstones most widely considered to be “precious,” and those that…
Crystallex gets Cristinas numbers (September 22, 2003)
A feasibility study on the Las Cristinas gold project in Bolivar state, Venezuela, has concluded that a 300,000-oz.-per-year operation would be economic at present gold prices, and project operator Cr…
NovaGold Funds work in Alaska
Vancouver — NovaGold Resources (NRI-T) will raise $25 million by issuing common shares and share purchase warrants in order to finance exploration of the Rock Creek and Nome properties in Alaska.The …
Banro looks to Twangiza project
Vancouver — Some eight years after gaining a foothold in the politically unstable but mineral-rich Democratric Republic of Congo and five years since the government took its exploration projects away…
A sure cure for depression
— The following is the second of two excerpts from Wesley Earl Dunkle: Alaska’s Flying Miner, recently published by University Press of Colorado. The 274-page book was written by Charles Caldwell Haw…