TSX up on strong job gains, Oct. 1-5 week
The S&P/TSX Composite Index gained 0.8% or 101.53 points during the Oct.1-5 trading week to end at 12,418.88.
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Buritica resource boosts Continental
Shares of Continental Gold (CNL-T) surged $1.09, or 12%, to $9.90 apiece, with more than 6 million shares changing hands on news of an updated resource estimate for the company’s Buritica project in Antioquia, Colombia.
Sulliden outlines a smaller project in Peru
While a feasibility study for Sulliden Gold’s (SUE-T) Shahuindo project in northern Peru envisions a somewhat smaller and slightly more expensive gold operation than previously thought, the project’s economics are…
Look out, here comes Oceanic Iron Ore
When Steven Dean stepped down in 2002 as president of Teck Cominco, now Teck Resources (TCK-T, TCK-N), his motivation was simple: he wanted to spend more time with his family after spending years on the road, a fact of life in the…
Editorial: Iron ore market gets anemic
Unto everything there is a season; a time to hustle and sell off your vast, frozen iron ore assets in remote parts of the country to foreigners from the tropics, and a time to throttle back production at actual iron ore mines in Canada’s…
Odds ‘n’ sods: Seabee, The little mine that beat the odds
In the late 1980s, veteran northern Saskatchewan bush pilot Bill MacNeill turned resource developer.
Metals commentary: Constrained copper supply spells trouble, analysts say
There won’t be enough copper to meet Chinese demand by the middle of the next decade, Adrian Day, president of Adrian Asset Management in London, told a group of investors at the Cambridge House conference in Toronto.
Taseko takes a second swing at New Prosperity
Nearly two years after its initial environmental assessment was rejected, Vancouver-based Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) is stepping up to the plate for a second attempt at permitting its US$1.1-billion New Prosperity copper-gold project, 120 km…
Correction
In the article “NuLegacy gets in line on Nevada’s Cortez trend” (T.N.M., Sept. 17–23/12), it was incorrectly stated that NuLegacy Gold has an option agreement with Miranda Gold on the Wood Hills South gold project in Elko County,…
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Atacama Pacific stacks oxide ounces at Cerro Maricunga
Toronto-based explorer Atacama Pacific Gold (ATM-V) has had a good run over the past four weeks. Anticipation built as Atacama neared completion on a year-long resource drill program at its wholly owned Cerro Maricunga gold property, 140 km…