Suppliers News (May 08, 2006)
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Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Editorial: Silver paper
It used to be said in the Canadian Football League that the Toronto Argonauts won the Grey Cup every June. Silver is the Toronto Argonauts of the metals: it has had its breakout year every December si…
New silver investors cause price hike: CPM Group
METALS COMMENTARY…
Silver soars on ETF debut (May 08, 2006)
The silver spot price raced US89, or more than 7% higher, to US$13.36 per oz. in morning trading in New York on April 28, after the widely anticipated launch of Barclays Global Investors Internationa…
Falconbridge soars on buoyant base metals
Higher metal prices helped Falconbridge (FAL.LV-T, FAL-N) more than double its earnings during the first three months of 2006….
Strike looms over Yanacocha (May 08, 2006)
Roughly two weeks after a group of workers at Latin America’s biggest mine returned to work, miners at Peru’s Yanacocha gold mine are threatening to walk off the site again….
Teck posts record profits
Vancouver — Teck Cominco (TEK.SV.B-T, TCKBF-O) posted net earnings of $448 million, or $2.19 per share, for the first quarter of 2006, more than double the net income of $205 million, or $1.01 per sh…
‘Business as usual’ at Ekati
Three weeks into its first-ever strike, BHP Billiton’s (BHP-N) 7-year-old Ekati diamond mine, about 300 km northeast of Yellowknife, N.W.T., appears to be holding up just fine….
Bloodshed in the Congo
At least two people are dead following protests at Anvil Mining’s (AVM-T, AVLMF-O, AVM-A) Kulu copper mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)….
Exchange Rates (May 08, 2006)
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