CORPORATE NEWS Horne Workers Reject Noranda’s Offer
Employees at the Horne copper smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Que., voted 73% to reject NORANDA's latest offer last week.
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CORPORATE NEWS Mazarin Joins COREM
Earlier this month MAZARIN, of Quebec City, became a member of COREM (Consortium de recherhe minrale). The group a...
CORPORATE NEWS Boulle Wins Diamond Fields Fight
DIAMOND FIELDS INTERNATIONAL, of Vancouver, lost its bid to stop a take over of the company by its largest sharehol...
EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIERS Gemcom Wins Brazilian Copper Contract
GEMCOM SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL, of Vancouver, has signed a $167,000 software contract for the Sossego copper project...
EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIERS Petro-Can Oil Meets Cat Drive and Axle Specs
PETRO-CANADA has launched the first Canadian-made final dive and axle oil that meets CATERPILLAR's new stringent re...
MINING PEOPLE (November 27, 2002)
Oyvind Hushvod has been named to the board of Gabriel Resources. Mr. Hushovd is a retired mining executive having m...
DOING SOME DIGGING (November 21, 2002)
The South African mining system is undergoing major reform, and everyone in the mining and investment industries wo...
EXPLORATION NEWS FNX-Dynatec Begin McCreedy West Program
Sudbury Basin Joint Venture partners FNX MINING and DYNATEC have begun a $5.4-million underground exploration progr...
MINE SITE NEWS Mudflow Kills 1 at Antamina
Compania Minera Antamina reported that a mudflow at its copper-zinc mine on Nov. 6 took the life of an employee who...
MINE SITE NEWS De Beers, AMEC Team up in Ontario
DE BEERS CANADA and AMEC have teamed up to conduct a pre-feasibility study on the Victor diamond project in the Jam...
COMPANY NEWS Harmony Acquires Stake in High River
South Africa's third largest gold producer, HARMONY GOLD MINING, has acquired a 21% equity stake in HIGH RIVER GOLD...
COMPANY NEWS Kinross, Echo Bay, TVX Delay Merger
The three-way merger of KINROSS GOLD, TVX GOLD and ECHO BAY MINES has been postponed until Jan.31, 2003, rather tha...
B.C. names Baptiste nickel project as major priority
FPX Nickel’s project becomes only critical minerals venture by junior miner on provincial list The British Columbia government has designated the Baptiste […]