InfoMiner Volume 1, No.6

March 21, 2003 Editor: Catherine Lamprecht catherine@infomine.com	Volume 1, No. 6 Our Sponsor

What's new this month at www.infomine.com

Meet Rod Young! Rod is Director of Operations at InfoMine and is responsible for a wide range of duties relating to the day-to-day running of the InfoMine website. He also manages the Companies/Properties section of the site overseeing the maintenance and development of InfoMine's massive database of detailed company and property information. See more on Rod Young below!


Upcoming Events Montreal Gold & Resource Investment Conference April 12 - 13 4th Annual Global Mineral Sand Exploration &Investment Conference March 24 - 25 Drilling and Blasting2003 April 13 - 15 San Antonio Jobs of the Month STM Associates "Ingeniero Geotecnico Senior" Domestico, Peru Antamina, Peru "Ingeniero Superintendentede Planta" Hamersley Iron Perth, Australia "Mechanical Engineer" Luzenac America Houston, Texas "Mill Superintendent"		Companies / Properties The InfoMine db Quick Search for Companies and Properties has been improved making searching much easier. The search has been redesigned so that in addition to searching companies by name you can now search for companies by Stock Symbol or search Featured Company Summaries by keyword. You can also set the search to only search Company Old Names to limit the size of your results. In addition, the search by Company Old Name is now only available to subscribers (at all subscription levels). With detailed information on over 1,000 publicly listed mining companies and almost 10,000 mineral properties, InfoMine db is the obvious place to start your company and property research. Click here to try the new InfoMine db Quick Search in the Companies/Properties section! Professional Development UBC Mining Engineering, UBC Continuing Studies and EduMine are pleased to announce their collaboration on the development of unique courses designed to meet the lifelong learning needs of the mining community. Each course integrates an online remote learning component with an intensive two-or-three day campus study component. Completion of required and elective courses leads to a Certificate in Mining Studies from UBC Continuing Studies. A number of such courses will be presented by UBC Mining Engineering at an annual Summer Institute of Mining Studies.		InfoMine Welcomesour Newest Clients! Kinross Gold Corp. Drummond Company Inc. Antamina Luzenac America Letourneau Editorials of the Month Codelco: Salvador has role to play in smelting-refining Ministry threatens to close Ilo Smelter-refinery Bilateral mining commission to be set up with China Economist says copper stockpiling, low-grading risky Court dismisses Minca CVG suit

Professional Development (continued)

New Course on Ore Microscopy and Mineralogy

Practical Ore Microscopy and Mineralogy is concerned particularly withinformation from reflected light microscopy and emphasizes the importance ofidentification, description and classification of ore textures for mineralbeneficiation and ore genesis. Other topics include paragenesis, exsolution,sulfide metamorphism, sulfide phase equilibria and practical problems suchas liberation, modal analysis, textural case histories, and reconcilingmineral proportions and assays. The course includes case studies andnumerous practical examples.

A New General Site-wide InfoMine Search is Now Available!

A new InfoMine Search has been developed so you can now search several InfoMine sections in one easy step. A total of 10 sections are searched: Careers, Companies, Properties, Suppliers, News, EduMine, Consultants, Equipment, Events and Publications. The InfoMine Search displays the top three results from each section and also a link to see the complete search results for that section. Only sections that return results are displayed making it easy to determine which sections of InfoMine contain information that fit your search. The new search is located in the top left corner of almost all pages of InfoMine making it is easily available throughout the InfoMine site.

Rod Young (continued)

Rod is a Vancouver native and has a B.Sc in Geology from the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining InfoMine he worked in mineral exploration for a number of mining companies and consultants on various projects throughout Canada. Rod is an 'old timer' with InfoMine having joined the company in 1991 (then Robertson Info-Data) after completing the Canadian Securities Course to work as an analyst on the company's first version of its company and property database.

In 1999 Rod was appointed to the Board of Directors of the company. During his career with InfoMine Rod has worked in several areas of the site including the News and Supplier sections developing new products as well as managing the development of map.InfoMine, the company's new interactive mapping interface. Rod has been instrumental in the initial development of the InfoMine.com website and continues to be deeply involved in new product development for the site. He is always keen to hear from InfoMine subscribers, clients and all users to listen to their ideas on what they want to see developed on InfoMine. He can be reached at young@infomine.com.