Harmony targets Gold Fields, top spot (October 25, 2004)
Fresh from a failed merger with
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LME Warehouse Levels (October 25, 2004)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Oct. 19 (change from Oct. 12 in brackets):…
Constellation Copper to start up Lisbon Valley
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Exchange Rates (October 25, 2004)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)…
Bissa Hill resource near 150,000 oz. (October 25, 2004)
An independent consulting firm has outlined a resource in two zones at the Bissa Hill deposit in east-central Burkina Faso. The property is held by
Uranium juniors flock to the Athabasca Basin
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Amex launches gold index
The American Stock Exchange has started publishing the Amex Gold Miners Index under the ticker symbol gdm.
Fraudulent Fortune, part 1
The following is the first of two exclusive excerpts from Fraudulent Fortune, a fictional work privately published in 2003. The author is a geologist and staff writer with The Northern Miner. The 233-page paperback version costs $10 plus shipping…
How to spell relief
At last month’s International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, Canada’s finance minister, Ralph Goodale, was one of the principal opponents of a plan floated by his British counterpart, Gordon Brown, to finance debt relief to poor countries th…
Freeport’s profits shrivel
The period ended Oct. 19 saw the broad market acclerate its decline of the previous week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Index tumbling 179.56 points to 9,897.62 and the S&P 500 index slipping another 18.61 points to 1,103.23.
Juniors hang on despite mixed metals prices
TSX Venture Exchange-listed companies were about even as the gold price climbed higher, owing to a weakening U.S. dollar. The S&P-TSX Venture Exchange index was down 25 points during the trading period of Oct. 13-19, compared with the previous wee…