Trading Summary (July 03, 2002)
A late-day surge fuelled by bargain hunters pushed Toronto Stocks into the black on Wednesday, led by the technolog…
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Trading Summary (July 02, 2002)
The real estate subindex was the lone advancer on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Tuesday. The golds couldn’t hold on…
Camafuca gets final approval
Angola’s Council of Ministers has approved the operating agreement for the Camafuca diamond project, 20 km southwes…
MV Kovambo resumes production
About a year and a half after an accident that left the bottom half of its NamSSol mining system some 70 metres bel…
Renard 3 yields larger stones (July 02, 2002)
Having recovered more than 2,500 diamond fragments from what they believe could have been at least two stones great…
Freeport issues Q2 production warning
Heavy rainfall at its Grasberg mine in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, and a delay in accessing higher grade ore has forced…
Ursa Major bats .500 at Shakespeare
Two of four recently sunk holes by Ursa Major Minerals (YMJ-V) on the Shakespeare property west of Sudbury, Ontario…
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Daily Metal Prices (July 01, 2002)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)DateJune 25June 24June 21June 20June 19Aluminium1325/13…
Rio Narcea rewrites hedge book
With its own future looking brighter and bullion prices picking up, Rio Narcea Gold Mines (RNG-T) has restructured its hedge book.In late 2000, the company borrowed US$24 million from Deutsche Bank to…
AurionGold eyes sweetener (July 01, 2002)
As expected, the board of directors of Aussie takeover target AurionGold has advised shareholders not to accept Placer Dome’s (PDG-T) all-share bid, as it wrangles for a cash sweetener.In a letter acc…
First Quantum forges ahead at Kansanshi
A positive engineering report has prompted First Quantum Minerals (FM-T) to proceed with a bankable feasiblity study of the Kansanshi copper-gold deposit in Zambia.Kansanshi is Zambia’s oldest mine, d…