When it rains it pours in Pine Valley
The list of problems for junior coal-producer Pine Valley Mining (PVM-T, PVMCF-O) is long: a washplant with poor recoveries; a pit with more oxidized coal than expected; and a loan agreement that coul…
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Editorial: McEwen’s right, but does anyone still care?
While Rob McEwen and Ian Telfer are two of mining’s most successful CEOs, you couldn’t get more pronounced differences in personality and style, with McEwen, the obsessive maverick, embodying the clas…
Trouble afoot in markets
COMMENTARY — The following is the first of three edited parts of a speech presented at the recent Silver Summit in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. I am rabidly bullish on the…
CNQ Trading (October 23, 2006)
Oct. 10-16, 2006
Canadian Gold Mutual Funds (October 23, 2006)
Fund name Oct 16($) Oct 6($) Change($) Change(%) YTD(%) MER*(%) Assets*(M$) AGF Pr Mtl 22.66 22.13 0.53 2.4 38.9 2.68 407 Altamira Pr & Str Mtl 10.88 10.52 0.36 3.4…
Dividends (October 23, 2006)
Company Div. Pay Record ($) Date Date Royal Gold 0.055* Oct 20 Oct 6 Goldcorp 0.015* Oct 27 Oct 20 Pr Mtls Mng Trust 0.05 Nov 15 Oct 31 Alcoa…
Strike averted at Teck’s Highland Valley
Vancouver — Teck Cominco (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) and Local 7619 of the United Steelworkers of America have averted a strike at the Highland Valley copper mine, 60 km southwest of Kamloops, B.C., with worker…
Inco saves best for last
Tabling its final quarterly report before its takeover by Brazil’s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO-N), Inco (N-T, N…
Westchester Resouces wants back into the mineral sector
Westchester Resources (WSR-T) is getting in on Guyana Goldfields’ (GUY-T) Peters Mine property in Guyana and the n…
Zinc recycling in the North (October 20, 2006)
Doubtless helped by the price of zinc, two former Arctic zinc producers, both operated by Cominco, are getting …
Shareholders approve EuroZinc/Lundin merger
Vancouver – Shareholders of Lundin Mining (LUN-T) and EuroZinc Mining (EZM-T, EZM-X) voted in favor of a merger pr…
Aquiline, IMA finalize Navidad transfer
In response to the July judgment of British Columbia’s Supreme Court that stripped the Navidad silver project in Ar…