Canyon gets nod at Briggs
An amended operating permit will allow Canyon Resources (CAU-X) to begin mining at North Briggs and Goldtooth, two satellite deposits to the Briggs gold mine in southeastern California.The approval fo…
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Sulphide producers overtaking laterites at nickel game
The battle has barely begun, but a recent study by AME Mineral Economics shows that sulphide nickel producers are dominating the lower half of the production cost curve, besting the performance of the…
Western Copper cuts high-grade silver
A 4-hole drill program by Western Copper Holdings (WTC-T) has cut both “massive-sulphide-style” and “vein-style” silver-lead-zinc mineralization at the San Jeronimo project in central Mexico.Hole 3 te…
Minera Andes aims drills at Cerro Saavedra property
The new year is proving to be a busy one for Minera Andes (MAI-V), as it prepares to launch not one but two drilling programs at its Cerro Saavedra silver-gold property in the Patagonia region of sout…
Mustang pulls more PGEs from East Bull Lake
Junior Mustang Minerals (MMIN-C) has sunk another eight holes at its East Bull Lake platinum group metals property, 80 km west of Sudbury, Ont.This brings to 16 the number of holes drilled to date, wi…
Aur, Cambior active as junior pounces on sickly major
The big story over the Jan. 12-18 report period was the launch by Aur Resources of a hostile takeover bid for Cambior, the Montreal-based gold miner that was crippled last autumn by its own hedging pr…
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Altoro buoyed by drill results in NE Brazil
The first five holes of an 18-hole drill program at the Pedra Branca platinum-palladium project in northeastern Brazil have returned encouraging values for Altoro Gold (ATG-V).Four of the holes were d…
The Northern Miner — Small Producers Index (January 24, 2000)
60.97 (-2.67)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
French dictionary targets engineers
Montreal’s cole Polytechnique and the Beauchemin Group have jointly published a French- language engineering and geology dictionary.Written by Mohamed Bouna-Aly, the Dictionnaire du gnie et des scie…
Get rich quick . . .without making money
The mining industry has been a whipping boy for environmentalists and anti-mining organizations for the past decade, but a recent column titled “They get the gold, we get the shaft,” in The National P…
Pulling up stakes
A few decades ago, I was summoned to the manager’s office of the German company for which I was working and told to stake a large property north of Saint John, N.B. “Be very diplomatic on this project…