GREATEST VALUE TRADED, NOV. 20-26
ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeAlcoa*N41454225.1622.2824.50+1.96…
2002
Producer and Dealer Prices (December 02, 2002)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$2,850/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$2.90/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.55/lb.Chromium: Mid-mkt ores US$65.00/t.Cobalt: Recent trades US$6.25-6.90/lb.Copper: Comex Mar US$0.7375/lb.
Golds lower in lacklustre market
The Toronto Stock Exchange made another half-hearted effort at climbing during the report period Nov. 20-25, but the rally ran out of steam on Nov. 26, leaving the TSX composite index at 6,477.77, up …
Peruvian find bears witness to Barrick’s grassroots thrust
The discovery of the 7.3-million-oz. Lagunas Norte deposit in northern Peru testifies to the success of Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T) new focus on grassroots exploration.The deposit is part of the Alto Chica…
Correction (December 02, 2002)
An article on the third-quarter results of Black Hawk Mining ( ) (T.N.M., Nov. 25/02) identified mineralized zones in the Santa Rosa area, south of the Limon mine in Nicaragua, as “steep-dipping veins…
Juniors keep exploration (barely) alive BC
Vancouver — Despite the implementation of one of the most attractive incentive programs in the country, mineral exploration in Canada’s westernmost province failed to ignite in 2002.In 2001, total fi…
Mining Nevada in the early ’40s
Everybody knew that the hills of Nevada had been scoured by countless prospectors and that most deposits exposed at the surface had been discovered. But workable deposits are rare, and scattered over …
Applied stats examples are documented
Prof. Alastair Sinclair, whose letter appeared in your Nov. 4 issue, was present when I taught a short course on sampling precious metals deposits at the University of British Columbia in 1989.He did …
Pele hopes Genesis is start of something big
Pele Mountain Resources’ (YPN-V) discovery of a significant diamond population in the Genesis showing at its Festival property near Wawa, Ont., has dramatically increased the potential for an economic…
Northgate advances Kemess North project; Botwood
Vancouver — Encouraging drill results have prompted Northgate Exploration (NGX-T) to launch a prefeasibility study at its Kemess North gold-copper project in central British Columbia.The results conf…
Spot Prices Wed. November 27, 2002 Courtesy of Scotiabank (December 02, 2002)
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$318.20-0.80Silver$ 4.44-0.11Platinum$587.00-6.00…
Victor Milne
Victor Milne, former director of the Ontario Geological Survey, died in late September. He was 68.Milne was born in 1934 in Scotland and completed undergraduate studies in geology at the University of…