Apex tables feasibility for San Cristobal
The San Cristobal property in southwestern Bolivia will be one of the world’s largest and lowest-cost producers of silver and zinc, according to a recent feasibility study.The results of the study, co…
News
SPOT PRICES, Wed. September 15, 1999
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$257.40+$1.40Silver$ 5.13-$0.04…
MINING MARKETS & INVESTMENT NEWS — Bolivar issues warrants
Toronto-based Bolivar Goldfields (BVG-T) has completed a private placement of 1.5 million units priced at 40 cents each.A unit consists of one share and half a share warrant. One whole warrant allows …
Mindoro set to drill
Junior Mindoro Resources (MIO-A) plans to drill as many as 15 holes totalling up to 1,500 metres in a program aimed at testing numerous gold and copper soil anomalies at its Agata project in the Phili…
EDITORIAL & OPINION — Employees may be worse off as owners — The cold-eyed view
Anyone watching the play in the Canadian airline industry, as Onex Corp. tries to merge Canadian Airlines with Air Canada, is getting a free, and valuable, lesson in employee ownership.Air Canada, the…
Coeur completes acquisition of Silver Valley
Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N) has completed its acquisition of Silver Valley Resources and other assets from Asarco (AR-N) in a deal valued at US$33.4 million.The Idaho-based company granted Asarco 7.1 …
Partners improve Cerro San Pedro
An updated feasibility study at the Cerro San Pedro gold-silver deposit in Mexico has bumped up reserves for partners Cambior (CBJ-X) and Metallica Resources (MR-T).The study indicates that the deposi…
Meetings (September 20, 1999)
Sept 20 Bowridge Sept 20 Cromwell Sept 20 GR Pacific Sept 20 Lorica Sept 20 Stellar Sept 20 Tres-Or Sept 20 War Eagle Sept 21 BCY Ventures Sept 21 Dumont Nickel Sept 21 El Misti Sept 21 Tri-Link Sept …
Lac des les feasibility under way
Results from a second phase of drilling by North American Palladium (PDL-T) at its Lac des les palladium mine could see the money-losing operation turned around.Situated near Thunder Bay, Ont., Lac d…
Junior disputes Stillwater’s East Boulder access
Idaho Consolidated Metals (IDO-V) insists that claims on a lower-grade platinum-palladium reef supersede access by Stillwater Mining (SWC-X) to its East Boulder project, 13 miles west of that company’…
Imperial posts second-quarter loss
The combination of low metal prices and high costs at the Huckleberry copper-molybdenum mine caused Imperial Metals (IPM-T) to incur a loss in the second quarter.The company lost $2 million (or 3 cent…
Ecuadorian cuts more high-grade — 21-hole drill program tests Alejandra and Dorada zones at the Beroen property
Junior Ecuadorian Minerals (EMC-T) has intersected more high-grade gold-silver values at the Beroen property in Ecuador.The company recently completed 21 angled core holes, totalling 2,029 metres, on …