North American Stock Exchange Indices (February 16, 2009)
52-week Date Feb 9 Feb. 6 Feb. 5 Feb. 4 Feb. 3 High Low S&P/TSX-Ven Comp 901.10 909.34 898.22 890.05 869.25 2814.88 678.62 TSX Composite 9047.28 9008.02 8860.98 8693.09 862…
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TSX Venture Short Positions (February 16, 2009)
Short positions outstanding at Jan. 31/09 (with changes from Jan. 15/09).
Federal Court Rules For Barrick In Cortez Hills Case
A U. S. judge has ruled against a preliminary injunction that would have halted construction at Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) Cortez Hills gold project in eastern Nevada, disappointing groups who oppo…
TSX Short Positions (February 16, 2009)
Short positions outstanding at Jan. 31/09 (with changes from Jan. 15/09).
International Quotes (February 16, 2009)
Australia (A$) Feb 10 Feb 3 Change Bendigo Mining 0.17 0.18 -0.01 Kingsgate Cons. 3.59 3.72 -0.13 Lion Selection Ltd 0.66 0.67 -0.01 Newcrest Mining 32.00 30.00 2.00 …
Canadian Gold Mutual Funds (February 16, 2009)
Fund name Feb. 9 Jan. 26 Change Change YTD MER* Assets* ($) ($) (%) (%) (%) (M$) AGF Pr Mtl 20.14 18.82 1.32 7.0 10.90 2.60 540.4 Altamira Pr & Str Mtl 9.40 8.98 0.42 4.7…
Livengood Grows To 6.8M Oz. Gold For Tower Hill
VANCOUVER — With its Livengood project, 110 km north of Fairbanks, Alaska, International Tower Hill Mines (ITH-V, THM-X) already had a significant gold deposit amenable to bulk-tonnage heap leaching …
Hecla Restructures Debt, Raises US$65.6M
Hecla Mining (HL-N) is juggling debt and issuing shares to help repay a loan it took to buy out its majority partner Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) at their co-owned Greens Creek silver mine, near Juneau in…
Mesquite Mine Back In The Saddle
With one year of operations at the past-producing Mesquite gold mine under its belt, Western Goldfields (WGI-T, WGW-X) reports it churned out 110,410 oz. gold for 2008, just short of the 117,000 oz. g…
Helio Extends Tanzanian Targets
VANCOUVER –With three rounds and two months worth of drilling results from its SMP gold property 100 km northwest of Mbeya, Tanzania, Helio Resource (HRC-V, HELOF-O) keeps growing its three main targ…
Exeter Cuts Lengthy Low-Grade Gold At Caspiche
Exeter Resource( XRC-V, XRA-X) has reported drilling results from its Caspiche gold-copper and Cerro Moro gold-silver projects, in South America.
Fortuna Silver Production On The Rise
After increasing silver production by 85% in 2008, Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI-V, FVITF-O) is planning to keep the trend going with an 80% rise this year.