Spot Prices Courtesy of Scotiabank Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Precious Metals Price (US$/oz.) Change Gold $689.70 +1.70 Silver $14.03 +0.07 Platinum $1325.00 +57.00 Palladium $381.00 +10.00 Base Metals Price (US$/lb.) Change Nickel $23.26 +0.43…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Daily Metal Prices (April 30, 2007)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)
U.S. Markets April 17-23
Markets in the United States touched record levels during the reporting period April 17-23, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting 12,983.92 points on April 23 and the Standard & Poor’s 500…
TSX Venture Exchange April 17-23
With bullion prices rising to an almost one-year high and base metals soaring, the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index turned in a modest 2.1 point gain to close the April 17-23 trading session at a m…
KL Gold, Queenston lock up more of Kirkland Lake camp
Queenston Mining (QMI-T, QNMNF-O) and Kirkland Lake Gold (KGI-T, KGI-L) are teaming up again in the Kirkland Lake gold camp of northeastern Ontario.
Metanor brings back Bachelor Lake
SITE VISIT Desmaraisville, Que. — As Yves Gagnon sloshes along the water-filled locomotive tracks of the past-producing Bachelor Lake gold mine here, he pulls something…
Endurance Gold advances on Pardo
Vancouver — Having recently closed about $2 million in financings, Endurance Gold (EDG-V) has kicked off this year’s exploration effort by mobilizing a geophysical crew to its Pardo project, located …
Letters to the Editor (April 30, 2007)
Flow-through credit wanted
Q1 output off 20% at Casa Berardi
Although Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T, AZK-X) produced 20% less gold in the first quarter of 2007 than planned, the company surpassed its gold grade and mill recovery estimates at its Casa Berardi mine in the…
MetalCORP adds moly to mix
Thanks to a little sleuthing through old company and government files plus a bit of follow-up sampling, MetalCORP (MTC-V) has added a substantive molybdenum-silver project near Hemlo, Ont., to its min…
Golden Band busy at La Ronge
Vancouver — A preliminary economic assessment evaluating production from Golden Band Resources’ (GBN-V, GBRIF-O) La Ronge gold belt projects, in northern Saskatchewan, has come back positive.
Tamerlane sees profit-taking on 214% increase
Tamerlane Ventures (TAM-V, TMLVF-O) has secured an agreement on job creation and business opportunities with one of the three First Nations groups it is dealing with at its Pine Point zinc-lead projec…