2000

The joint annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada and the Mineralogical Association of Canada will be held at Memorial University in St. John’s, Nfld., from May 27 to 30, 2001.The meeti…

As a qualified physical scientist with a background in mineral sciences and mining, I dare say that if all good mineral science were shared and not cloaked in secrecy, as is the case in the mineral ex…

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NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T20.6ComincoCLT-T4.0…

Vancouver — Having completed a third phase of drilling at its Tambo Grande project in northern Peru, Manhattan Minerals (MAN-T) is encouraged by the thickness of mineralization encountered in the Cop…

While falling short of actually making a production decision, Inco (N-T) has announced it is advancing its Goro nickel-cobalt project in New Caledonia to a new stage of development, keeping it on-trac…

In October 1976, the Alaska Miners Association (AMA) held its first statewide convention in Anchorage to discuss, among other things, a federal government proposal to withdraw up to 80 million acres o…

Rollingdam, New Brunswick — Freewest Resources Canada (FWR-M) is preparing to launch a 3,000-metre program of diamond drilling at its Clarence Stream gold property in southwestern New Brunswick. The …

Stepout drilling at the Meliadine West gold project has led to the discovery of new mineralization west of the Tiriganiaq zone.Situated near Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Meliadine West is a joint venture am…

The world’s oldest international money, gold, could become an important element of the world’s newest currency — digital money.Digital money systems are being developed to offer methods of payment th…

I found the recent Odds ‘N’ Sods by A.J. Naldrett most interesting. (See “The Shatter cones of Sudbury” in T.N.M., Nov. 13/00). It’s also a lesson we should all remember.When, in 1964, Robert Dietz pr…