Taylor to step aside
Placer Dome CEO Jay Taylor will retire at the end of September, ending a 5-year stint at the helm of the world’s sixth-largest gold producer.
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Producer and Dealer Prices (March 29, 2004)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$2,915/t.
Daily Metal Prices (March 29, 2004)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)…
Taseko to restart Gibraltar
In return for 8 million shares valued at $22.2 million,
Gabriel Res. advances Rosia Montana
A new management team at
Bioteq cleaning up one mess at a time
Mining has long had a problem with acid mine drainage, and Vancouver-based
The Northern Miner Indices (March 29, 2004)
North American Mining: 108.39 (+1.38)…
China changing steel market
In 2003, world crude steel production reached a record high of 962 million tons. This year, the billion-ton production level will be eclipsed.
Pacific Rim aims to expand El Dorado
With the Denton-Rawhide gold-silver mine slated for closure next year,
Sparton options Sierra Rosario
OSC may probe Agnico-Eagle (March 29, 2004)
Emgold sees profits in ceramics from tailings
Grass Valley, California — Intent on restarting the past-producing Idaho-Maryland gold mine, just 4 km east of here,