Noranda boosts earnings
Improved second-quarter and first-half results are attributed by Noranda (TSE) to stronger prices and improved sales volumes for many of the company’s principal products and to more favorable currency…
1994
EDITORIAL PAGE — The school of hard knocks
A sobering dose of reality hit the Canadian diamond play this past week as disappointing results were released by Kennecott Canada from the DO-27 (Tli Kwi Cho) kimberlite in the Lac de Gras region of …
AMERICAS — Chile and Mexico draw globetrotter Cominco Int’l.
Geologists working for Cominco Resources International (TSE) are ensuring that their company lives up to its name. This year’s activities include searching for porphyry copper deposits in Chile’s Atac…
Vengold decides against acquisition of St. Philips
The proposed acquisition of all the shares of St. Philips Resources (VSE) by Vengold (TSE) will not proceed. Vengold had offered to purchase all the issued shares of St. Philips in return for Vengold …
Troilus contract to SNC-Lavalin
A contract for engineering and construction management of the concentrator, tailings storage and associated infrastructure at the Troilus gold project north of Chibougamau, Que., has been awarded to S…
Record price for Nymex seat (August 15, 1994)
A New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) seat sold recently for a record US$555,000. The futures exchange trades oil and gas and platinum and palladium contracts. Meanwhile, the Commodity Futures Tradin…
DIAMOND PAGE — Sampling program for Nicholas Bay pipe
Partners SouthernEra Resources (TSE), Winspear Resources (VSE) and Adex Mining (TSE) plan to carry out a 2-3 tonne mini-bulk-sampling program on their newly discovered Nicholas Bay diamondiferous kimb…
STOCK MARKETS — Disappointing DO-27 results spur western
Disappointing exploration results out of the Northwest Territories helped spur a continued slide in western markets. The Vancouver Stock Exchange resource index took it on the chin, plunging 121.73 po…
METALS COMMENTARY — Summer doldrums rule metal markets
Despite higher-than-normal stainless mill demand, metal prices remain in their seasonal doldrums with only the rumor mills really active. There is massive speculation about 1994 Russian production lev…
Montanore drops property option
Noranda Minerals, a U.S. subsidiary of Noranda (TSE), reports that an option held by Montanore Reserves to reacquire a 45% interest in the Montanore silver-copper project expired July 29. As a result,…
Green light for Kodiak project
Construction can now begin on the Kodiak heap-leach gold project at Golden Bear mine in northwestern British Columbia. North American Metals (VSE) received the required mine development certificate fr…
NEWS IN BRIEF (August 15, 1994)
Leader Mining Corporation (LMC:ASE) has changed its name to Leader Mining International Inc. (LMN:ASE) on a 1-new-sh-for-5-old-shs basis.