The following is an excerpt from a summary of the CPM Group’s Platinum Group Metals Yearbook 2012 report.The annual average prices of platinum and palladium rose to multi-year highs in 2011. Platinum prices averaged US$1,722.39 per oz….
The British Columbia Securities Commission has raised concerns about a 10.6-million-oz. gold resource estimate that Barkerville Gold Mines (BGM-V) released on June 28.The concerns, based on a draft technical report supplied to the BCSC,…
From Sept. 8–9 in Toronto, 10 women representing Women in Mining will participate in the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers benefiting the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation.The weekend event is part of the “Believe It!”…
Spanish coal miners protested their industry’s “disappearance” at the Ministry of Industry in Madrid after a month-long, almost 500-km Marcha Negra, or “Black March.” The march was initiated on foot by 80 miners…
After enjoying a brief early week rally during the trading period, The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index pared gains, closing down 2%, or 24.4 points, at 1,184.25. Uncertainty surrounding the eurozone crisis and weak jobs data in the U.S….
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average erased losses for the week in the last hour of trading as better-than-expected economic data from China lifted investor sentiment. The country clocked year-on-year growth of 7.6% during the…
SPOT PRICESCourtesy of ScotiaBankTuesday, July 10, 2012 Precious MetalsPrice…
EXCHANGE RATES CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date July 16 July 13 July 12 July 11 July 10 US$ in C 1.0157 1.0151 1.0214 1.0195 1.0203 …
A day after Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) cut its 2012 production guidance, the company saw its share price take a hit.In Toronto on July 11, Goldcorp shares approached a 52-week low of $32.52. They fell $3.74, or 10% to $33.89, on 6.1 million shares…
Alamos Gold (AGI-T) has outlined a positive mining scenario at its Turkish gold assets, Kirazli and Agi Dagi, and revealed an inferred resource for its Camyurt project, also in Turkey’s northwest. A new prefeasibility study shows…
The Aluminum Corp. of China (Chalco) and Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) have agreed to wait a month before Chalco makes an official offer to buy Ivanhoe’s stake in SouthGobi Resources (SGQ-V), as doubts remain as to whether the Mongolian…
NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-X) bounced off 52-week lows after announcing it had achieved a number of milestones on the road to developing its Donlin gold project northeast of Anchorage, Alaska. Donlin is one of the largest potential gold…
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