MEETINGS (June 26, 2000)
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News
Newmont to merge with Battle Mountain
Newmont Mining (NEM-N) has inked a deal to acquire Battle Mountain Gold (BMG-N), representing the second major merger in the gold mining industry in the past two weeks.Only days earlier, Toronto-based…
Gold Funds (June 26, 2000)
Gold Funds as of June 15, 2000Dynamic MutualCentral FundNet Value$13.06$5.62Price$7.4…
New study green-lights Tahera’s Jericho project
Toronto-based Tahera (TAH-T) intends to advance its Jericho diamond project to commercial production now that a feasibility study has indicated that the far-northern project is economic.The Jericho pr…
Seabridge Resources to gain gold project from Placer Dome
Seabridge Resources (SEA-V) has signed a letter-of-intent to acquire the Kerr-Sulphside gold project, 20 km southeast of the Eskay Creek mine in British Columbia. The project consists of two deposits,…
DIAND not doing its job
My name is Larry. I am not a productive, useful Canadian, though I would like to be.I live in northern Canada — the largest part of Canada and its least-populated. We should be able to produce the mo…
African forum to boost investment
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the European Union are organizing the SADC-EU Mining Investment Forum, slated for Oct 10-13 in Lusaka, Zambia.In recent years, the 14 member-nation…
Kimberlite discovered on Epworth property
Monopros, the Canadian exploration arm of De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBRSY-Q), has discovered a kimberlite pipe on Rhonda Mining’s (RDM-V) wholly-owned Epworth property, 75 km south of Coronation Gu…
Geita pours first gold
It came three months early and weighed 6 kg.Ashanti Goldfields (ASL-N) and AngloGold (AU-N) are the proud parents of a gold bar — the first to be poured at the Geita mine, in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria…
Impala to buy Platexco for $191 million
The long wait for Platexco (PTX-T) shareholders is over.South African platinum-miner Impala Platinum Holdings has announced a cash offer to acquire all of Platexco’s 20.1 million fully diluted shares …
Conference good for BC
On May 11, the Mining Association of British Columbia and the province’s Ministry of Energy and Mines co-hosted a unique conference that focused on mining in British Columbia.I would like to thank the…
John C. Doyle
One of Canada’s most famous fugitives has died from leukemia at his home in Panama. He was 85.John C. Doyle, who was once called an “evil genius” by former federal and provincial cabinet minister John…