Trading Summary (April 22, 2002)
The pipelines subindex climbed 102.56 points or 1.4% to lead just three advancing subgroups on the Toronto Stock Ex…
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Miramar hits production targets (April 22, 2002)
Vancouver – With merger plans in full swing, the first quarter of 2002 saw Miramar Mining (MAE-T) produced 31,749 o…
Hidden Bay drilling yields potential
Drilling by Cameco (CCO-T) on UEX Corp.’s Hidden Bay property in northern Sask., has turned up new prospective area…
First Quantum cuts stake in Mopani
Vancouver A restructured deal has First Quantum Minerals (FM-T) reducing its interest in Zambia’s Mopani Copper M…
Teck-Cominco faces fine
Vancouver — The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) has hit Teck-Cominco (TEK-T) with a $270,000 fine for an accident…
Northgate reaches tentative deal at Kemess
Northgate Exploration (NGX-T) has reached a tentative deal for a new three-year collective agreement with the Inter…
Light volume keeps CDNX idle
Vancouver — Canada’s junior exchange failed to follow the major bourses higher, with volume remaining on the light side. The Standard & Poor’s-CDNX composite index lost 6.94 points, or 0.6%, and clos…
Nickel Rim South takes shape for Falco
A rich massive sulphide deposit is quickly taking shape in the venerable Sudbury mining camp of northern Ontario.Since discovering the zone last fall, Falconbridge (FL-T) has sunk seven more holes in …
The virtual paper trail
With the news that regulators in the United States — not the mighty Securities and Exchange Commission, but lowly state authorities — have opened the issue of analysts’ recommendations, we see a fai…
European Goldfields drills Sacaramb (April 22, 2002)
European Goldfields (EGU-V) has begun drill-testing the Sacaramb target, near the company’s 80%-owned Certej project in Romania. The program will consist of six holes, or 1,800 metres.Angled holes, sp…
Atacama expands Chilean iodine project
Atacama Minerals (AAM-V) intends to expand production at its Aguas Blancas iodine project in northern Chile.In January, just short of a year after construction began, annual production reached 720 ton…
PacMin drill-tests JBS property in China
Vancouver — Pacific Minerals (PMZ-V) has launched a 2,500-metre program of underground drilling on its JBS nickel-copper-platinum-palladium property in southwestern China.Based on government resource…