Furnace accident forces early shutdown
An early-morning furnace run-out has forced the temporary suspension of operations at Falconbridge’s (FL-T) Kidd co…
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Indo Mining Law moves forward
Vancouver — With both Newmont Mining (NEM-N) and Weda Bay Minerals (WDA-T) sitting on the sidelines, Indonesian go…
Drilling resumes at High Lake (August 13, 2001)
Vancouver — With spring breakup finally over in Canada’s high north, Wolfden Resources (YWO-V) has resumed drillin…
New showings at Nunavik
Vancouver — An independent sampling program over the Nunavik copper-nickel property in northern Quebec has confirm…
Fort Knox begins stripping at McBratney Lake
Fort Knox Gold Resources (FNX-T) has begun a program of mechanical stripping and geological mapping and sampling on…
Pace falls off for Akrokeri-Ashanti
Thanks to lower gold prices and grades, Akrokeri-Ashanti Gold Mines (YAG-V) wasn’t able to keep up the record-setti…
Trading Summary (August 13, 2001)
The gold and precious minerals subindex put in the best percentage gain on Monday, rising 130.67 points, or 2.75%,…
The Northern Miner — North American Mining Index (August 13, 2001)
69.06 (-1.05)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
The Northern Miner — Small Producers Index (August 13, 2001)
44.81 (-0.65)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Nickel takes the blows
Another poor week for base metals saw a slight reduction in the rate of inventory build-up in London Metal Exchange (LME) warehouses but no let-up to the steady downtrend in prices across most of the …
PEOPLE (August 13, 2001)
Candor Ventures — Terrence Fisher appointed chairman; Paul Chamois appointed president and director; Patrick Reid appointed secretary and director.Guyanor Resources — Michel Juilland appointed pres…
Obituary – Ian Bayer
Ian Bayer, former president and chief executive officer of Battle Mountain Gold and Hemlo Gold Mines, has died. He was 62.Bayer was born in Sydney, N.S., in 1939 and graduated from Acadia University. …