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…
News
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…
Apogee intersects silver in tumultuous Bolivia
While political uncertainty still swirls around the mining industry in Bolivia, Apogee Minerals (APE-V) had good ne…
Rio Tinto coming to Oyu Tolgoi
Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T) wowed the market by laying the groundwork for a partnership with Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) in …
Pirquitas to go into production (October 18, 2006)
Silver Standard Resources (SSO-V, SSRI-Q) will go ahead with construction of a mine at its Pirquitas silver project…
Colombia attracts mining’s heavy hitters
Marmato, Colombia — Efforts by Colombian authorities to attract international mining investment are bearing fruit …
Shore sizes up Star kimberlite (October 17, 2006)
Geological modelling of the Star kimberlite near Fort la Corne, Sask., has put the size of the body at 276 millio…