Gold rally fizzles (sigh)
Gold bugs had little time to celebrate during the May 23-29 report period, as the mid-May gold rally quickly fizzled after a few exhilarating days. Coming off an earlier peak exceeding US$290 per oz.,…
Barrick Gold Corporation
Pan American Silver aims to double production
Vancouver-based Pan American Silver (PAA-T), as its name suggests, was founded in order to give investors exposure to silver, so it is no surprise that the company’s bottom line suffered when the pric…
Northern Miner Indices (May 28, 2001)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T19.3ComincoCLT-T5.1FalconbridgeFL-T6.7Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T6.3Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N6.7Homestake MiningHM-N4….
Low-cost gold mines: the new survivors
As the gold price rallies, only to sink again, the measure of a good gold project is less and less its production and more and more its operating margin. The need to make money in a small way is winni…
Southwestern Gold active in Argentina, Peru
Denver — Faced with the impending South American winter, partners Southwestern Gold (SWG-T) and Consolidated Jaba (JBA-V) are hurrying to complete soil sampling on the Tecka layered mafic intrusion i…
Gold prices move up to new range
Gold bugs enjoyed an invigorating rally in the yellow metal over the May 16-22 report period, as the London gold price broke out of a long-held, sub-US$270-per-oz. range to spend a few hours above US$…
Northern Miner Indices (May 21, 2001)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T19.3ComincoCLT-T5.1FalconbridgeFL-T6.7Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T6.3Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N6.7Homestake MiningHM-N4….
Gold companies show signs of life after auction
Gold staged a bit of a rally during the May 9-15 report period, as the yellow metal climbed US$3.90 to trade at US$269.10 per oz. in London on the morning of May 16.Amid the price rise, the Bank of En…
Northern Miner Indices (May 14, 2001)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T19.3ComincoCLT-T5.1FalconbridgeFL-T6.7Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T6.3Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N6.7Homestake MiningHM-N4….
Noranda reworks Lomas Bayas deal with Falco
The biggest news among Canada’s base metal producers over the May 2-8 report period was the revelation by Noranda that it is shuffling off its stake in the proposed purchase of the Lomas Bayas open-pi…
Barrick posts record cash flow
The weak gold market and fears of recession in the industrial world may be working on the minds of many gold producers, but Barrick Gold (ABX-T) has kept smiling through the hard times — if you can c…
Mine becomes tourist attraction
Golfers soon will be able to play a full 18 holes on a newly expanded course designed by Les Furber, one of the top course designers in the world. The expanded amenity is part of a multi-million-dolla…