Trading Summary (September 25, 2001)
After mounting some decent gains in the morning and dipping into the red in the afternoon, the Toronto Stock Exchan…
News
Noranda tables La Fortuna inferred resource
Noranda (NRD-T) has released an inferred mineral resource estimate for the La Fortuna porphyry copper-gold discover…
Coeur extends high-grade
Vancouver — Idaho-based Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N) has extended the high-grade gold-silver mineralization on the…
Ashton cuts kimberlite in Quebec
Vancouver — The initial results from an ongoing drill program by Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) has the potential…
Freeport launches trust
Vancouver — Seeking to improve relations with the indigenous community, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) aim…
Rex drills targets in Mauritania (September 24, 2001)
Rex Diamond Mining’s (RXD-T) drilling campaign at its Karet South permit in north-central Mauritania has turned up…
Namco thrown a line
Still hurting for cash after an accident disabled its NamSSol seabed crawler during operations off the coast of Nam…
Western Troy aims at quick ounces
With gold’s fortunes looking a bit brighter, junior Western Troy Capital Resources (WRY-V) has decided to resume bu…
Trading Summary (September 24, 2001)
The U.S. markets finally bounced on Monday and finished in positive territory after an abysmal week last week. The…
Canada’s diamond industry reaches 10-year milestone
Diamonds were a respectable exploration target in Canada in the 1960s and 1970s when De Beers and several major companies launched highly secretive programs aimed at finding kimberlites similar to tho…
FPO Production from Snap Lake project delayed until 2006
A depressed rough diamond market has given De Beers cause to push back production from the Snap Lake underground diamond project in Canada’s Far North until 2006, more than a year longer than was orig…
Manhattan Minerals determined to advance Tambo Grande
Manhattan Minerals (MAN-T) has raised $5.4 million in a private placement, with a considerable portion of the proceeds earmarked for the Tambo Grande gold and base metal project in northern Peru.Natio…