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Exchange Rates (August 13, 2001)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)DateAug.7Aug. 6Aug. 3Aug. 2Aug. 1US$ in C$1.5340Holiday1.53481.5412…
Staff Investment Policy (August 13, 2001)
The Northern Miner does not permit any editorial employee to file stories about companies in which the writer owns shares. Editorial employees are also not permitted to take part in initial public off…
Atna advances Chilean copper oxide project
The results of a 22-hole, 2,480-metre program of reverse-circulation drilling have confirmed previous oxide resource estimates of the Barreal Seco copper project in north-central Chile.Atna Resources …
Denison — then and now
Second-quarter financials issued by Denison Mines (DEN-T) paint a picture of a small but generally healthy company making it work in tough times.Denison lost $978,000 in the second quarter on revenue …
Francisco expands Guatemalan find (August 13, 2001)
Francisco Gold (FGX-V) has received encouraging results from the final nine holes of a third round of drilling at its wholly owned Marlin project in western Guatemala. The near-surface, oxidized zone …
‘Rural cleansing’ gets media attention
When the Wall Street Journal lines up hammer and nail to drive home a point, a hard bang or two usually follows. Earlier this summer, the prestigious newspaper hit the nail on the head when it reporte…
Hedging lifts Aur’s bottom line
Steady production and beneficial hedging allowed Aur Resouces (AUR-T) to pocket a tidy US$8-million profit during the second quarter.Aur’s share of combined second-quarter production from the Quebrada…
Freeport’s Grasberg zero-cost copper producer
Record gold sales and throughput in the second quarter have allowed Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) to post zero-unit cash costs for each pound of copper produced at the vast Grasberg mine in I…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (August 13, 2001)
DateAug.7Aug. 6Aug. 3Aug. 2Aug. 1HighLowTSE 3007772.23Holiday7744.217756.197741.37…
Drills hit at Prairie Creek
Vancouver — Results from the first hole in the latest round of drilling on the Prairie Creek base metal property in the Northwest Territories has confirmed the high-grade nature of Zone 3 for operato…
Gold Funds (August 13, 2001)
Gold Funds as of August 2, 2001Dundee Precious MetalsCentral FundNet Value$13.30$5.14Price$9.35$4.69…