Anglo investing US$25 million in Nautilus
Vancouver – Nautilus Minerals (NUS-V, NUSMF-O) plans a US$68.5-million financing and has lined up mining giant Angl…
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Blue Note dusts off Caribou
Bathurst, N.B. — The dormant Caribou and Restigouche zinc-lead mines in northern New Brunswick are once again getting a new lease on life, thanks to robust metal prices and strong investor confidence…
Trouble afoot in markets, Part II
Commentary — The following is the second of three edited parts of a speech presented at the recent Silver Summit in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The realization that both the financial…
More reward than risk at Kutcho Creek
Dease Lake, B.C. — The Kutcho Creek volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project located 100 km east of this Northern community made it to prefeasibility in the mid-1980s, only to be put on the back b…
Gahcho Ku on path to production in 2012
With the Snap Lake underground mine in the Northwest Territories and the Victor open-pit operation in northern Ontario already under construction, De Beers, the world’s leading diamond player, is look…
Midway drilling pushes Spring Valley north
Vancouver — Drilling by Midway Gold (MDW-V, MDWGF-O) on the North Hill target at its Spring Valley project in northwestern Nevada has hit a new zone of gold mineralization.
Spot Prices Courtesy of Scotiabank Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2006
Precious Metals Price (US$/oz.) Change Gold $578.40 -16.50 Silver $11.57 -0.28 Platinum $1065.00 -29.00 Palladium $317.00 -6.00 Base Metals Price (US$/lb.) Change Nickel $15.42 +0.16 Lead $0.69 +0.01 Copper $3.38…
Rio Tinto throws weight behind Oyu Tolgoi
Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) wowed the market in mid-October, by laying the groundwork for a partnership with Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) to get its massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in southern Mon…
Daily Metal Prices (October 30, 2006)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)
Producer and Dealer Prices (October 30, 2006)
Antimony : Mid-mkt US$5,240/t.
Dividends (October 30, 2006)
Company Div. Pay Record ($) Date Date Goldcorp 0.015* Oct 27 Oct 20 Pr Mtls Mng Trust 0.05 Nov 15 Oct 31 Alcoa 0.15* Nov 25 Nov 3 Noranda Incm…
TSX Short Positions (October 30, 2006)
Short positions outstanding at Oct. 15, 2006 (with changes from Sept. 30).