The Northern Miner — Small Producers Index (July 15, 2002)
89.38 (+1.88)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
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Gold Funds (July 15, 2002)
Gold Funds as at July 4, 2002Dundee Precious MetalsCentral FundNet Value$23.51$5.85Price$17.30$6.46…
AurionGold advises rejection of Placer offer
Directors of Australian gold miner AurionGold have gone beyond their initial recommendation that shareholders not react to Placer Dome’s (PDG-T) hostile, all-share takeover offer. They are now advisin…
Spot Prices Wed. July 10, 2002
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$313.80-$0.65Silver$ 5.04+$0.12Platinum$524.00-$…
Exchange Rates (July 15, 2002)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)DateJuly 9July 8July 5July 4July 3US$ in C$1.51441.52081.52391.5321…
LME Warehouse Levels (July 15, 2002)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, July 9 (change from July 2 in brackets):MetalStock (tonnes)ChangeAluminium1260000(+60…
Producer and Dealer Prices (July 15, 2002)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$1,440/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$3.00/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.30/lb.Chromium: Mid-mkt ores US$65.00/t.Cobalt: Recent trades US$6.90-7.50/lb.Copper: Comex Sept US$0.7615/lb.Indium: Ind…
Alcoa rebounds in Q2
Costcutting enabled Alcoa (AA-N) to turn a respectable profit in the second quarter.The world’s largest aluminum producer earned US$232 million (or US27 per share) on revenue of US$5.2 billion during…
Barrick doubles Alto Chicama resource estimate (July 15, 2002)
Infill drilling by Barrick Gold (ABX-T) on the Lagunas Norte deposit has more than doubled the inferred resource at the 185-sq.-km Alto Chicama property in north-central Peru.The resource now stands a…
Gold Fever in BC, Part 2
The exploration and development of porphyry deposits during the 1960s and 1970s had a profound effect on the mining community in British Columbia. Between 1965 and 1987, one out of every four deposits…
Alcoa receives award
Alcoa Foundation, the charitable arm of Pittsburgh, Pa.-based Alcoa, one of the world’s largest aluminum refiners, has received an award from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (…
34 die in Ukrainian coal mine
A fire in Ukraine has claimed the lives of 34 miners, bringing the country’s death toll from mining-related accidents to nearly 150 this year.Thirty of the miners were in a trolley descending into the…