Further Copper Creek intercepts for Firesteel
Vancouver – Drilling by Firesteel Resources (FTR-V) on its wholly-owned Copper Creek project, located in the Stikin…
2004
Royalties stretches Mequillon further
Drilling along the northeast strike extension of the Lac Mequillon nickel-copper deposit in Ungava, Quebec, has tra…
Crystallex pumps up Cristinas reserve (November 09, 2004)
Recent drilling and a revision of the economic cutoff grade have combined to increase the reserve and resource figu…
Rio Narcea pins down Salave resource (November 09, 2004)
About halfway through a 15,000-metre program of infill drilling, Rio Narcea Gold Mines (RNG-T) has tabled a resourc…
Outokumpu’s recovery process eyed for Red Chris
bcMetals Corporation (C-T) is considering using Outokumpu Technology’s hyrdometallurgical process to recover copper…
Initial Pebble economics look good for Northern Dynasty
Vancouver – A positive preliminary assessment on Northern Dynasty’s (NDM-V) Pebble gold-copper-molybdenum project…
Osisko picks up Canadian Malartic (November 08, 2004)
A property deal with a private vendor has given Osisko Exploration (OSK-V) an option on the Canadian Malartic prope…
Meridian Capital acquires Thistle debt (November 08, 2004)
Standard Bank London and the Standard Bank of South Africa have sold their interests in certain senior finance docu…
Tahera lines up financing for Jericho
Jericho Camp, Nunavut — Now that
Gold Fields circles the wagons (November 08, 2004)
As part of its 3-pronged defence plan against
More stoping methods
The following is an excerpt from the ninth edition of Mining Explained, published by The Northern Miner.
Protection plan
The proposed sale of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting is an elephant-and-mouse deal like almost no other. Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, is ready to sell a large integrated mine-and-smelter operation to a small Toronto-ba…