Silver ETF a go?
Precious metals investors smiled in early March as spot silver broke through the longstanding US$10-per-ounce barrier to post solid, new 19-year highs. Purchases by speculators have been important dri…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Battle brewing between Big Red Diamond and Kel-Ex
Montreal-based Big Red Diamond (DIA-V) has requested an additional 30 days from the Autorit des marchs financiers to file its annual financial statements ended Oct. 31, 2005, blamin…
Blockade shuts down Freeport’s Grasberg
Vancouver — A large group of protesters, some toting weapons, effectively shut down operations at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s (FCX-N) massive Grasberg mine in Indonesia’s Pa…
U.S. Gold looks to consolidate Cortez Trend
Vancouver — Robert McEwen’s U.S. Gold (USGL-O) has launched takeover offers for four TSX Venture-listed companies in an anticipated manoeuvre to fuse together a large, strategic land…
Gold and the end of dollar hegemony, part II
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Delivering at Corani
With 89 holes representing over 14,000 metres of drilling completed on the Corani silver discovery in Peru and a resource estimate due out in early March, Bear Creek Mining (BCM-V, BC…
Vista seeks to revive Mount Todd gold mine
Vancouver — Pegasus Gold developed a reputation for building and operating low-grade gold mines during a period of high gold prices in the 1980s. As prices collapsed, so did the company and many of i…
StrataGold readies for Tassawini resource
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Canadian Gold Mutual Funds (March 13, 2006)
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Exchange Rates (March 13, 2006)
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Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (March 13, 2006)
| Date | March 6 | March 3 | March 2 | March 1 | Feb. 28 | High | Low |
| S&P/TSX-Ven Comp | 2643.51 | 2651.23 |