Toronto Stock Exchange August 26-29
The TSX Composite Index enjoyed a slight rally over the Labour Day-shortened Aug. 25-29 trading period, gaining 482.29 points to finish at 13,771.25.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
U. S. Markets August 26-29
U. S. indices were up during the holiday-shortened Aug. 26-29 trading session: the Dow Jones Industrial Average moved up 157 points, or 1.4%, to 11,544; the S&P 500 Index climbed 16 points, or 1.3…
Forty years a speculator, part II
— The following is the second of a two-part, edited excerpt from Forty Years a Speculator, an investing memoir by Fred Carach, a certified real-estate appraiser in Florida and 40-year subscriber to T…
PEOPLE (September 08, 2008)
Canadian Royalties — Richard Faucher has resigned as president, CEO and a director; Glenn Mullan appointed president and CEO on an interim basis.
Silvercorp turning on China’s silver tap (September 08, 2008)
Record production brought in higher revenues for Silvercorp Metals (SVM-T, SVMFF-O) in the latest quarter, and the company maintained its status as one of the industry’s lowest-cost silver producers.
Inmet and Petaquilla make nice
Inmet Mining has moved closer to its (IMN-T, IEMMF-O) dream of taking Petaquilla Copper (PTC-T, PTQLF-O) out of the picture at the Petaquilla copper project in Panama, by boosting its bid for the juni…
DRC sounds sour note on Tenke
Words from the mouth of a mines ministry official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been anything but music to the ears of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) and Lundin Mining (LUN-…
Minco-Sterling merger a no-go
VANCOUVER — Minco Silver (MSV-T, MISVF-O) has cancelled its plans to take over Sterling Mining (SMQ-T, SRLM-O).
Clear skies in Qinghai for Eldorado Gold (September 08, 2008)
As the first North American gold producer in China, Eldorado Gold (ELD-T, EGO-X) has a lot to smile about.
Editorial: Conflicts and confusion
While the crash in junior mining stocks started to level off during the week ended Aug. 30, the 35th trading week of 2008, there remained quite a few open-ended, confusing situations for miners and th…
Lean and mean has gone too far
The following is an open letter from Buzz Hargrove, the departing national president of the Canadian Auto Workers Union, the largest private sector union in Canada and representative of about 7,500 Ca…
Hathor hits a homer
VANCOUVER — After almost three months of promising scintillometer results, Hathor Exploration (HAT-V, HTHXF-O) released the first set of assay results from its summer drilling program at the Midwest …