Daily metal prices (April 11, 2011)
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Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Producer and dealer prices (April 11, 2011)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$15,950/t
LME warehouse prices
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Apr. 4, 2011 (change from Mar. 28 in brackets):
Spot Prices (April 11, 2011)
Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2011
Market News (April 11, 2011)
Toronto Stock Exchange With no escalation of violence in the Middle East and North Africa, a more settled March 28-April 1 period saw the TSX…
People (April 11, 2011)
African Aura Mining – Steven Poulton resigned as a director.
Zimbabwe accelerates indigenization program
The Zimbabwe government has announced it is going ahead with its indigenization law, and foreign mining firms now have until Sept. 25 to sell a majority stake of their projects in the country to qualified locals.
Another view of doing business in the DRC
For the past six and a half years, our company has been engaged in intensive mineral exploration in what many consider to be one of the less fashionable addresses on earth: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Minmetals saves Lundin’s bacon
In what looks to be one of the major themes in mining this year, mergers and acquisitions again took centre stage in early April.
Torex looks to Mexican gov’t for help securing Morelos after hold-up
After an armed robbery on March 20 at its Morelos gold project in Mexico’s Guerrero state, Torex Gold Resources (TXG-T) is turning to the local government and police to help secure the area and enable the company to continue exploration….
Charting the shoals in the Philippines
Eleven of the 81 provinces in the Philippines have either imposed moratoriums on open-pit mining projects or on the mining of specific minerals, and a twelfth is set to soon join the list, according to Allan & Associates, a security risk…
Minmetals to bid for Equinox Minerals
Shares of Equinox Minerals (EQN-T, EQN-A) surged 31.5% or $1.80 per share to $7.51 on news that Minmetals Resources intends to launch a $6.3-billion bid for the company – one of the largest proposed mining deals in China’s history.