TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE OCTOBER 18-22
A dipping gold price helped lead to a mixed week for the S&P-TSX Venture composite index, but three days of gains outpaced two days of losses to have the board end up 55.71 points at 1,878.23.
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U.S. MARKETS OCTOBER 18-22
Leading up to the G-20 weekend meeting of finance ministers, U.S. stocks ended higher for the third straight week at the close of the Oct. 18-22 period. The Dow Jones industrial average added 69.78 po…
Freeport settles with DRC gov’t at Tenke
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government has finally completed its lengthy review of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s (FCX-N) Tenke Fungurume copper-cobalt project and confirmed that …
Sundridge selects Senet for Debarwa’s feasibility study
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The Banana grows for Hana
For Hana Mining (HMG-V), 2010 is shaping into a banner year.
Hathor’s superb uranium hits
The latest drill results from Hathor Exploration’s (HAT-V) Roughrider uranium discovery on the Midwest Northeast project in Saskatchewan’s prolific Athabasca basin are literally off the scale.
Political power play over PotashCorp
BHP Billiton’s $40-billion hostile bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan entered a critical period in late October, as the broadly free market-friendly Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and his government…
Dumas buys Peruvian mining contractor L&L
Having settled into its new headquarters in downtown Toronto, Dumas Contracting has acquired L&L Contratista Minera, a Peruvian mining contractor specializing in shaft sinking.
Harvard Law School responds to AME BC letter re. First Nations report
In June 2010, Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic released a report entitled Bearing the burden: The effects of mining on First Nations in British Columbia, which is available at ht…
Caterpillar, Rio Tinto renew supply agreement
Caterpillar (CAT-N) and Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) have signed a five-year agreement wherein Caterpillar will support and supply a broad range of Cat equipment for Rio Tinto’s mines worldwide. It is the…
New boomer from Atlas Copco
A new face drilling rig for narrow tunnels and mines has been introduced by Sweden-headquartered Atlas Copco. Based on the Boomer 104, the new Boomer T1 D retains many of its predecessor’s features an…
Vancouver miners help out local students
Lord Strathcona Elementary School is the oldest elementary school in the city of Vancouver, having been built in 1891 to educate the children of mostly immigrant and working-class families.