BHP acquires Dia Met, boosts stake in Ekati
Having acquired 98.2% of Dia Met Minerals’ (DMM-T) Class A subordinate voting shares and 84.9% of its Class B multiple voting, Australia’s BHP (BHP-N) has further extended its $687-million takeover of…
2001
Spot Prices Wed. June 27, 2001Courtesy of Scotiabank
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$276.00+$3.60Silver$ 4.35-$0.05…
Teck settles tax dispute
Teck has settled a dispute with the Canadian income tax authorities.The company deposited $75 million with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency against a possible income tax reassessment. In light of…
Barrick-Homestake merger shakes gold market
Spicing up an otherwise bland week, Barrick Gold, on June 25, announced its intention to purchase American rival Homestake Mining in a paper deal worth US$2.3 billion.The all-share, friendly offer cau…
Victoria Island search resumes
Diamond-explorer Major General Resources (MGJ-V) has begun ground geophysical surveys of 20 airborne magnetic anomalies on Victoria Island in Nunavut, in preparation for drilling.The anomalies were de…
Union workers halt zinc smelter in Peru (July 02, 2001)
Denver — Production of refined zinc at the Cajamarquilla smelter near Lima, Peru, has ceased after 350 unionized workers walked off the job.The union and Cominco (CLT-T), which owns 82% of the plant,…
CanTung mine set to reopen doors
Vancouver — Armed with $6.5 million in financing, North American Tungsten (NTC-C) plans to restart its wholly owned CanTung mine, in the Northwest Territories, by year-end.The company recently entere…
RJK posts gains during mixed week
WESTERN MARKETThe Canadian Venture Exchange finished the period ended June 26 down 44.97 points at 3,230.93, off 1.4%. The mining index went the other way, gaining 68.31 points, or 0.9%, to close at 7…
Partners turn up low grades in Kirkland Lake
Five holes drilled in the South Break and 180 Splay structures in Lebel and Gauthier twps., near Kirkland Lake, Ont., have intersected long intervals of low-grade gold mineralization.Partners Queensto…
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Andacollo liquidation begins (July 02, 2001)
Compania Minera Dayton (CMD), a wholly owned subsidiary of Dayton Mining (DAY-T), has been granted bankruptcy protection for four years.In May, CMD’s creditors unanimously accepted a creditor’s agreem…
Rio drops Vicuna property
Vancouver — Despite cutting wide zones of copper-silver mineralization in its first round of drilling on the Vicuna gold project in northwestern Argentina, Rio Tinto (RTP-N) has decided to stop explo…