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BY ANDREW SEALE Clockwise from the top: Visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum browse the displays in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals; the hair-speckled Millerite; Repose; Pigeon Blood Red; a tourmaline display in the Light & Stone exhibit.

Moon Dust And Hairy Rocks

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto has opened the doors to its Earth’s Treasures exhibit located in the Teck Suite of Galleries, sponsored by Teck (TCK. B-T, TCK-N).


Left to right: Continental Nickel's senior geologist Gerry Katchen, project manager Christopher Airo, and vice-president of exploration Patti Tirschmann show off massive sulphide intersections from the company's Nachingwea nickel sulphide project in Tanzania.

Continental Nickel Makes Headway In Tanzania

Nickel prices may be in the dumps, but that isn’t dampening Continental Nickel’s (CNI-V, CNKDF-O) drive at its Nachingwea nickel sulphide project in Tanzania, which recently returned some encouraging …




Daily Metal Prices (January 19, 2009)

Date Jan. 12 Jan. 9 Jan. 8 Jan. 7 Jan. 6 BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne) Al Alloy 1135/1175 1110/1145 1121/1170 1146/1185 1150/1190 …



New Gold Closes Troubled Amapari Mine

Six years ago, mining tycoon Ian Telfer described the Amapari gold mine in Brazil as “one of the best undeveloped gold assets in the Americas.”


Adanac Avoids ‘Fire-Sale’ For Now

VANCOUVER — With more than US$80 million owed on a bridge loan maturing Jan. 31, and about $100 million committed to construction of its Ruby Creek molybdenum project, but only $16 million in the ban…



Woodjam Shaping Up For Fjordland And Cariboo

VANCOUVER — Drill intercepts showing long intervals with consistent grades of copper, molybdenum and gold on the Woodjam property, 50 km east of Williams Lake, B. C., buoyed the share prices of 60/40…


Canadian Gold Mutual Funds (January 19, 2009)

Canadian Gold Mutual Funds Fund name Jan. 12 Jan. 5 Change Change YTD MER* Assets* ($) ($) ($) (%) (%) (%) (M$) AGF Pr Mtl 16.71 17.48 -0.77 -4.4 -7.98 2.60 540.4 Altamira Pr & S…


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