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Signals suggest commodity rally drawing to a close

The single biggest technical feature dominating the commodity markets is divergence on medium and long-term charts. This is afflicting both individual markets and the indices, and, in our view, implies that the rally of the past three years is mat…




Voisey’s Bay sparks interest in Placentia, Nfld.

Settling Placentia when Toronto was trees, Basque fishermen described it as insulace corte realis, or “harbour within a womb of hills.” The depiction was apt. More than 100 years later, in the early 1600s, France and England fought for control of…


OntZinc buys HBM&S, becomes HudBay

Toronto-based junior company OntZinc (OTZ-V) has closed its purchase of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting from South African mining house Anglo American (AAUK-Q) after completing large equity and debt financings.



Possible Stelco bailout

Sherritt International and its partners at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan are offering a recapitalization plan to financially troubled steelmaker Stelco (S-T) , currently in bankruptcy p…




Mano River joins with Crown Diamonds

Vancouver — The Lion Kimberlite Dykes project in eastern Sierra Leone is expected to start producing in 2005, following a joint-venture agreement between Australian-listed diamond miner Crown Diamonds and U.K.-based Ma…


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