With copper prices still languishing well below US$1 per lb., many of the mines acquired by Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP-N) in its 1995 takeover of Magma Copper are losing money and facing possible cl…
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Technical setbacks at the newly acquired Mineral Ridge gold mine and lower production at the Hycroft gold mine, both of which are in Nevada, translated into a disappointing first quarter for Vista Gol…
James Moffett, the no-nonsense chairman of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N), once predicted that if copper prices “went in the dumper,” his company’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia and BHP’s Escondi…
Timing is everything, and mine wasn’t good. I decided to join the brokerage fraternity in Toronto at the worst possible time — in the mid-1960s, not long after the trading scandal involving Windfall …
Hecla Mining (HL-N) has begun its second drill program on the Sunset gold property owned by Cimarron Minerals (CIU-V) in Mineral Cty., Nev.Hecla, which is earning a 65% interest in the property, compl…
Imagine spending US$70 million acquiring, exploring and developing a gold-silver deposit and then having it placed in perpetual limbo by two government initiatives: one, banning your project; the othe…
Kennecott Exploration has entered into an option agreement with White Knight Resources (WKR-V) on the latter’s Lone Mountain gold property in Nevada.The Rio Tinto (RTP-N) subsidiary can earn an initia…
The story “Junior eyes rare-metal pegmatite” (T.N.M., May 31-June 6/99) by John Cumming contains a number of inaccurate and misleading statements calculated to cause confusion among your readers.Contr…
During the past few months, I spent many enjoyable evenings watching some of the most talented hockey players in the world battle for the Stanley Cup. Although few fans think about it, the game would …
Glamis Gold (GLG-T) has sold its entire block of shares in BlackRock Ventures (BVI-T) for gross proceeds of US$9.7 million.The former now has US$39.6 million in working capital, of which US$35.6 milli…
Antimony: Representative mid-market US$1,255 per tonne (June 8/99).Bismuth: Representative mid-market US$3.65 per lb. (June 8/99).Cadmium: Representative mid-market US$0.22 per lb. (June 8/99).Chromiu…
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