Sweden’s Storliden makes the grade
Skelleftea, Sweden — Storliden, the first new mine in Sweden in more than a decade, has begun commercial production of copper and zinc on time and under budget.Situated 140 km northwest of the city o…
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Golds lead way
With prices surging US$8 into the mid-US$320-per-oz. range, producers of the yellow metal proved to be the only bright spot in the U.S. markets during the report period ended Sept. 24.The U.S.-listed …
Friedland leading the charge in the land of Genghis Khan
The discovery by Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T) of the world class copper-gold bearing porphyry system at Turquoise Hill in Mongolia’s remote South Gobi region highlights the untapped mineral exploration poten…
Northern Miner Indices (September 16, 2002)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T23.2%CamecoCCO-T3.2%FalconbridgeFL-T5.2%Freeport BFCX.B-N5.8%GoldcorpG-T4.2%IncoN-T9.2%Meridian GoldMNG-T2.8%Newmont MiningNE…
GREATEST VALUE TRADED, SEPTEMBER 4-10
ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeNewmont Mng*N55268229.9327.9028.46-0.61…
MOST ACTIVE ISSUES, AUG. 28 – SEPT. 3
ExchgVol(000s)HighLowCloseChangePlacer DomeT1760616.2514.7516.18+1.22…
GREATEST VALUE TRADED, AUG. 28 – SEPT. 3
ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeEcho Bay MinesT67111.661.431.65+0.17…
Northern Miner Indices (September 09, 2002)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T23.2%CamecoCCO-T3.2%FalconbridgeFL-T5.2%Freeport BFCX.B-N5.8%GoldcorpG-T4.2%IncoN-T9.2%Meridian GoldMNG-T2.8%Newmont MiningNE…
Gloomy start to September
A market rout on September’s first trading day in the U.S. might be a sign of further carnage to come this fall. For the report period ended Sept. 3, the major indices retested post-9-11 lows, with th…
US markets reverse course
In another typical display of these troubled times, U.S. markets reversed course to finish the Aug. 21-27 report period worse off than when they started.The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 47.66 …
Northern Miner Indices (September 02, 2002)
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T23.2%CamecoCCO-T3.2%FalconbridgeFL-T5.2%Freeport BFCX.B-N5.8%GoldcorpG-T4.2%IncoN-T9.2%Meridian GoldMNG-T2.8%Newmont MiningNE…
Rally leaves golds behind
A strong rally in the U.S. markets over the report period Aug. 13-20 brought the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 4.6% and the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 up 6%.The Dow finished the period at 8,872.0…