Daily metal prices (May 16, 2011)
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Producer and dealer prices (May 16, 2011)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$16,700/t
LME warehouse levels (May 16, 2011)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, May 9, 2011 (change from May 3 in brackets):
Spot prices (May 16, 2011)
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Market News (May 16, 2011)
Toronto Stock Exchange
Correction (May 16, 2011)
In last week’s feature on HudBay Minerals (HBM-T, HBM-N), we referred to the company’s Lalor project in Manitoba as a nickel-copper-gold-silver deposit, when it is in fact a gold-copper-silver-zinc deposit.
CSR’s evolution: Dodd-Frank and the UK’s Bribery Act
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is still a largely voluntary, loosely defined initiative in the resource-extraction industries, but pressures from a number of sources make it harder and harder to ignore.
Editorial: Silver leads commodities rout
Commodities investors felt the pain during the first week of May, as the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALs set off heavy selling in a wide spectrum of hard assets from precious and base metals to oil and gasoline.
Auriga hits near-surface gold at Maverick project (May 16, 2011)
Shallow drilling has returned several high-grade intercepts for Auriga Gold (AIA-V) at its Maverick gold project in northwestern Manitoba.
Bear Creek optimistic despite silver’s slide
As the New York spot price of silver quickly retreated to US$34.40 per oz. in early May from its 31-year high of US$48.70 on April 28, one of the formerly best-performing stocks in the junior silver space, Bear Creek Mining (BCM-V, BCEKF-Q),…
Metals commentary: Metal prices’ fall and the bin Laden effect
Friedrich Nietzsche opined that, in its essence, life is uncanny.
Glencore goes public with US$11B IPO
Before early May’s commodities rout, Glencore International was expected to fetch a valuation of as much as US$70 billion, but the metal-trading king’s imminent move into the public markets will still come with a hefty valuation of US$61…