2004

Vancouver — Following a positive preliminary assessment, Northern Dynasty Minerals‘ (NDM-V) intends to advance its Pebble gold-copper-molybdenum project in southwestern Alaska to the feasibility stage.

Shares in Southern Cross Resources (SXR-T) plummeted as much as 25, or 30%, to a 52-week low of 58 in early trading in Toronto on Nov. 1 after the company said increased capital costs would force it to delay development of the…

Vancouver — NovaGold Resources (NG-T) has intersected significant copper, gold and silver mineralization during an 8-hole, 2,700-metre drill program at the Galore Creek project in northwestern British Columbia.

Vancouver — Placer Dome (PDG-T) earned US$148 million (or 36 per share) in the third quarter, up substantially from US$27 million (6 per share) in the corresponding period of 2003. Tax gains contributed to the improvement.

Voters in Montana turned down a ballot measure that would have overturned an earlier state prohibition on the use of cyanide in gold or silver mining.