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TSE INDICES (January 04, 1999)
1998Dec. 22Dec. 21Dec. 18Dec. 17Dec. 16HighLowCom…
LME Warehouse Levels (January 04, 1999)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Dec.29/98 (change from Dec. 22 in brackets):MetalStocks(tonnes)Change…
SPOT PRICES (January 04, 1999)
Tuesday December 29, 1998Price (US)Week’s ChangeGold*$286.70- $2.00Silver*$ 4.92…
GREATEST VALUE TRADED, Dec. 22-28
ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeNoranda Inc.T381…
Exploration down in ’98 but not out — Argentina, Newfoundland among hot spots for junior companies
Similar in mood to 1997, though comparatively free of scandal, 1998 will be remembered as the year exploration companies replaced promotional antics with survival tactics. But despite the bearish mark…
MOST ACTIVE ISSUES, Dec. 22-28
ExchgVol(000s)HighLowCloseChangeNoranda Inc.T2469…
PRODUCER & DEALER PRICES (January 04, 1999)
Aluminium: LME settlements US$1,239, alloy US$1,030 per tonne (Dec. 29/98).Antimony: Representative mid-market US$1,220 per tonne (Dec. 29/98).Bismuth: Representative mid-market US$3.10 per lb. (Dec. …
Foreign political risk hits home in 1998 — Spurned Canadian-based juniors turn to courts as numerous international deals hit snags
Although North American mining companies, as a group, have prospered in recent years by venturing to remote parts of the world, several Canadian companies were devastated in 1998 as a result of overse…
ODDS ‘N’ SODS — My Mexican odyssey
In 1975, I was cruising around the Mexican state of Guerrero, looking at showings, and my travels took me through Chilpancingo.I looked up a man whose first name was Francisco, a 71-year-old mining en…
Commodity prices take toll on US mining
As American miners ring in the new year, they are also bidding good riddance to a year they would just as soon forget. Several factors conspired against the U.S. mining industry in 1998, making it one…
Diamond sector bolstered by triumphant startup at Ekati — Diavik project undergoes assessment; Snap Lake takes shape
A new era in Canadian mining dawned in October as the nation joined the ranks of the world’s diamond producers.Situated 300 km northeast of Yellowknife, N.W.T., in the sub-Arctic barren lands, the Eka…