Staff Investment Policy (August 20, 2001)
The Northern Miner does not permit any editorial employee to file stories about companies in which the writer owns shares. Editorial employees are also not permitted to take part in initial public off…
2001
A black name for Black Rock
The mother of all recent Arizona “desert dirt” plays was the project of International Precious Metals (IPM), 90 miles west of Phoenix.IPM started as a small-scale explorer of platinum, with shares tra…
Great Quest eyes Kenieba (August 20, 2001)
Vancouver — Great Quest Metals (GQ-V), a firm believer that gold prices will be heading higher, has added the Kenieba concession to its portfolio of gold properties in Mali, West Africa.The junior ca…
New showings reported at Nunavik
Vancouver — An independent sampling program at the Nunavik copper-nickel property in northern Quebec has confirmed the presence of platinum-palladium mineralization in the Expo-Ungava deposit, with f…
Atlas Copco buys parts supplier
Swedish-based eqipment manufacturer Atlas Copco has bought Christensen Products, a division of Kansas-based Layne Christensen.Christensen Products is a leading supplier of diamond core drill rigs.The …
Correction (August 20, 2001)
The gold exhibit at the Pacific Mineral Museum in Vancouver, B.C., is slated to begin Oct. 1 and run until Nov. 4. Incorrect information appeared in our Aug. 6-12 issue.
High PGM prices are here to stay
Robust prices can mask a multitude of sins, though not for long in mining, the most cyclical of all major industries. Producers of platinum group metals (PGMs) seem relatively immune to the old adage,…
Hair appointed head of ICMM
Conservationist Jay Hair has been appointed secretary general of the London-based International Council on Mining and Metals, the successor organization to the International Council on Metals and the …
PEOPLE (August 20, 2001)
TGW — William Fisher appointed president.Valerie Gold– Stephen Wilkinson appointed director.
Niobec strike settled (August 20, 2001)
Hourly rated employees at the Niobec niobium mine in the Lac St.-Jean area of Quebec have returned to work following a 9-day strike. Owners Cambior (CBJ-T) and Mazarin (MAZ-T) reached an agreement wit…
Drills to turn at White Gold
Vancouver — Placer Dome (PDG-T) and Grayd Resources (GYD-V) are about to launch a 1,200-metre drill program at the White Gold property near Tok, Alaska.Placer, which is funding the program as part of…
McWatters gets nod for highway move at Sigma
McWatters Mining’s (MCW-T) intense lobbying of three levels of government has paid off handsomely with an agreement to move a portion of the main highway leading into Val d’Or, Que.At McWatters’ Sigma…