Spot Prices Courtesy of Scotiabank Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Precious Metals Price (US$/oz.) Change Gold $661.15 +3.90 Silver $12.76 +0.16 Platinum $1296.00 +12.00 Palladium $367.00 +1.00 Base Metals Price (US$/lb.) Change Nickel $15.78 -0.98…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Asia Pacific Mining Conference 2007
Manila, Philippines — Held recently here, and organized by the Asean Federation of Mining Associations (AFMA), the 7th Asia Pacific Mining Conference attracted many of Asia’s most prominent miners an…
U.S. Markets July 3-9
United States markets continued an upward trend over the four trading days between July 3 and July 9, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 making near-identical adva…
TSX Venture Exchange July 3-9
Strengthening gold, copper and lead prices lifted the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index 3% over the July 3-9 trading session, closing up 97.49 points at 3,271.88. Average daily trading volumes retra…
Lundin Group adds US$100M to Clinton-Giustra Initiative
Vancouver — When something is hot in the mining industry, it’s usually a metal price or a developing project. It’s not usually sustainable development. But thanks to a Vancouver mining magnate, a Mex…
Toronto Stock Exchange July 3-9
The TSX Composite Index broke back through the 14,000-point threshold as it finished the July 3-9 trading period up 270.95 points at 14,177.52.
People (July 16, 2007)
Alcoa — Jinya Chen appointed president, Asia-Pacific region.
Worker killed at Midas
A Newmont Mining (NMC-T, NEM-N) worker was killed recently when the floor collapsed under the loader he was operating at the 5,600-ft. level of the Midas gold mine in Nevada.
Fort Hills trio to go with design plan
Vancouver — Partners in the Fort Hills oilsands project, located in northern Alberta’s Athabasca region and about 90 km north of Fort McMurray, are moving forward with initial design plans that will …
Editorial: Teck finesses another takeover
It was yet another period of intense merger and acquisition activity in the mining sector during the week ended July 7, the 27th trading week of 2007 and the beginning of the third quarter.
Antares hits new porphyry system beneath Haquira
Vancouver – A deep hole exploring a new copper-molybdenum-gold porphyry system at the Haquira project in Peru retur…
Moly Mines rallies on pending feasibility study
Vancouver – News of the imminent release of a final feasibility study for its Spinifex Ridge molybdenum-copper proj…