Falco posts record earnings despite strike
Higher metal prices and increased low-cost production from its new Raglan and Collahuasi mines offset the effects of an ongoing strike at its Sudbury operations, enabling Falconbridge (FL-T) to post r…
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Barrick takes US$1.1b hit against 2000 earnings
As expected, Barrick Gold (ABX-T) wrote-down the value of some of its assets by a total of US$1.1 billion to reflect the reality of lower gold prices in recent years and to prepare for the possibility…
Oakes book has investigative flavour
Sir Harry Oakes, 1874-1943:An Accumulation of NotesBy Bob CowanHighway Book ShopCobalt, Ont. P0J 1C0Bob Cowan’s collection o…
Mixed earnings polarize resource sectors
Erasing some of the gains made in the previous week, the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index slipped 46.96 points over the Jan. 31-Feb. 6 report period to finish the week at 9,301.40.A flurry of mixed ne…
Market absorbs rate cut
Denver — The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 76.22 points, or 0.7%, in the report period ended Feb. 6 to close at 10,957.42. The market got a boost when the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rat…
A taste of things to come Living Legacy, Act One
The recent decision by Ontario’s minister of natural resources to reject an application for a granite quarry near Belleville and adjacent to the Mellon Lake Conservation Reserve is being applauded by …
Roman’s empire not built in a day
Unlike fellow financier Joe Hirshhorn (1899-1981), Stephen Roman (1921-1988) was a builder, albeit a slow one.The portly gentleman immigrated to Canada in 1937 after attending agricultural college in …
The Northern Miner — North American Mining Index (February 12, 2001)
69.29 (-0.41)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Virginia, Billiton cut PGMs at Gayot
Junior Virginia Gold Mines (VIA-T) and its partner, Billiton, have drilled wide intersections of nickel, platinum and palladium mineralization at their Gayot project in Quebec’s Caniapiscau Reservoir …
The Northern Miner — Small Producers Index (February 12, 2001)
48.26 (-0.62)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Staff Investment Policy (February 12, 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…
Dinner will honour Cross
After 52 years and 13,388 issues, the George Cross Newsletter and its editor, George Cross, Jr., have decided to call it a day.The final issue of the west-coast mining chronicle was published at the e…