Mountain Province Diamonds finds largest gem-quality diamond in a Canadian drill program
Mountain Province Diamonds (MPV-T, MDM-X) and joint-venture partner De Beers Canada have found a 25.13-carat gem-qu…
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Desert drilling returns strong iron grades for Anaconda
VANCOUVER — Promising drill results and an available drill rig prompted Anaconda Mining (ANX-T, ANXGF-O) to tack on an extra 4,200 metres to the drill program at its San Gabriel project in Chile, and…
Cue defines Yuty uranium resource
Cue Resources (CUE-V, CUEYF-O) has released a new resource estimate for a portion of the San Antonio uranium deposit in southeastern Paraguay, encouraging the company to continue with environmental ba…
Vale has big money to spend
Almir Rezende has a problem that most of us would love to have: How to spend US$1 billion a month over the next five years.
Latin American Minerals drives into Argentina, Paraguay (June 30, 2008)
SITE VISIT VINCHINA, LA RIOJA, ARGENTINA — As our convoy speeds towards a distant mountain range, kicking up clouds of dust along the unpaved road…
Rusoro: Venezuela’s odd man in
VANCOUVER — Rusoro Mining (RML-V, RMLFF-O) is the exception that proves the rule: While most mineral exploration in Venezuela has ground to a halt, Rusoro just arranged a US$80-million exchangeable l…
Nevada means never being out of sight of a headframe
Moira Smith has clocked more than a decade working on gold and copper projects in Alaska, Panama, Argentina, Mexico and Peru. But the senior geoscientist says Nevada “leads the pack” in terms of gold …
INTERNATIONAL QUOTES (June 30, 2008)
Australia (A$) June 24 June 17 Change Bendigo Mining 0.28 0.30 -0.02 Centamin Egypt 1.15 1.24 -0.09 Kingsgate Cons. 5.28 5.50 -0.22 Lion Selection Ltd 1.88 1.82 0.06 …
EXCHANGE RATES (June 30, 2008)
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DIVIDENDS (June 30, 2008)
Note: Vale will pay $0.52* on common and pr sh in two instlmnts on Apr 30 and Oct 31. Alcoa will pay $0.9367* per share…
LENDING RATES (June 30, 2008)
as of 9 a. m. ET, June 24, 2008 (%) Bank of Canada 3.25 Target overnight rate 3.00 Canadian Prime 4.75 U. S. Discount Primary 2.25 U. S. Fed Funds market rate 2.00 U. S. Prime …
CNQ TRADING — JUNE 17-23, 2008 (June 30, 2008)
(100s) WEEK 12-MONTH STOCK TICKER VOLUME HIGH LOW LAST CHANGE HIGH LOW Alliance Mining AMCL 350 0.15 0.15 0.15 + 0.05 0.23 0.085 Avanti Mining AVMI 6960 0.80 0.31 0.55 …