CVRD eyes Noranda
Shares in Noranda (NRD-T) shot up $2.56, or nearly 12%, to $24.55 in morning trading on Wednesday, after media repo…
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Alexis ups stake in Abitibi district
Force majeure at Kidd
Lower grades sink Richmont (May 17, 2004)
Lower gold grades and a stronger Canadian dollar caused
Alexis bets on Abitibi belt
Alexis Minerals (AMC-V) is betting on finding new base metal and gold deposits in Quebec’s prolific Abitibi mining…
Lower grades sink Richmont (April 29, 2004)
Lower gold grades and a stronger Canadian dollar pushed Richmont Mines (RIC-T) into the red to the tune of $1.1 mil…
Teck’s Pogo stuck, Lennard Shelf revival planned
Construction work at Teck Cominco’s (TEK-T) Pogo gold project in Alaska has ground to a halt after an environmental…
Higher metal prices buoy Noranda
Higher realized prices for its bread-and-butter metals offset lower production, and powered Noranda (NRD-T) to net…
VVC catches Beaver Brook fever
Having closed its $17-million purchase of the mothballed, underground Beaver Brook antimony mine in central Newfoundland,
Base metals buoyed by manufacturing gains; Shakespeare
The most recent U.S. industrial production data showed a solid gain in the fourth quarter of 2003, led by a 1% jump in manufacturing output. The gains were boad-based, spreading across almost all manufacturing output categories. The February stren…
PGEs defy gravity on TSX as golds sink
Platinum and palladium stood out from the pack, gaining US$51 and US$13 per oz., respectively, during the April 7-13 report period.
Bioteq cleaning up one mess at a time
Mining has long had a problem with acid mine drainage, and Vancouver-based