Change at the top for Verena
The promising exploration growth Verena Minerals (VML-T) has shown recently in Brazil will have to be driven by a n…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Baffin Island sparkles for Peregrine Diamonds
It’s not every day that you find diamonds outcropping at surface in the Arctic and some geologists will go a lifeti…
Short Position Report (August 25, 2008)
TSX Short Positions Short positions outs…
DIVIDENDS (August 25, 2008)
Note: Vale will pay $0.52* on common and pr sh in two instlmnts on Apr 30 and Oct 31. Alcoa will pay its quarterly div of US$0.9375 for US$3.75 cmltv pr sh on Oct 1, rec Sept 12. Newmont Canada will p…
Creston Moly’s bet on El Creston paying off
VANCOUVER — With complete results now available for the latest drill program at El Creston, it’s becoming clear that Creston Moly (CMS-V, CMSJF-O) has its hands on one of the highest-grade molybdenum…
BHP Billiton grapples with Olympic Dam expansion
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA–By the end of this year, BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-L) will have completed a prefeasibility study for transforming the Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold mine into a massive open-…
Pebble Creek focused on India
Pebble Creek Mining (PEB-V, PBLEF-O) has released a National Instrument 43-101 resource estimate for its flagship Askot project, in northern India’s Uttarakhand state. At a net smelter return cutoff o…
Intrepid posts Indonesian resource (August 25, 2008)
VANCOUVER — A resource estimate for a portion of the Tujuh Bukit gold project in Indonesia only a few months after Intrepid Mines (IAU-T, IAU-A) acquired the project through a merger with Emperor Min…
TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE AUG. 12-18
The period of Aug. 12-18 was another bearish one for the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index. By the end of the period the exchange had lost another 91.71 points, bringing the cumulative loss from Jul…
LME WAREHOUSE LEVELS (August 25, 2008)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Aug. 19, 2008 (change from Aug. 12 in brackets):
SPOT PRICES (August 25, 2008)
COURTESY OF SCOTIABANK
PRODUCER AND DEALER PRICES (August 25, 2008)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$6,350.00/t.