Spot Prices Tuesday, January 4, 2005 Courtesy of Scotiabank
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LME Warehouse Levels (January 10, 2005)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Jan. 4/05 (change from Dec. 24/04 in brackets):…
Daily Metal Prices (January 10, 2005)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)…
Exchange Rates (January 10, 2005)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)…
The Northern Miner Indices (January 10, 2005)
North American Mining: 106.73 (-8.21)…
TSX stumbles off the blocks
The Toronto Stock Exchange ended 2004 on a sour note, dropping 17.75 points to end at 9,246.65 on Dec. 31. Still, that’s 1,025.8 points, or 12.5%, better than at the end of 2003. The holiday-shortened Dec. 29-to-Jan. 4 report period saw the TSX co…
Newmont leads in volume
U.S. stock markets fell over the period Dec. 29-Jan. 4. The S&P 500 index was down 25 points, or 2%, to close at 1,188.05 points, whereas the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 2%, or 223.76 points, to close at 10,630.78 points. The price of go…
New year not so happy for precious metals
Althouth the first few trading days of 2005 saw a slump in precious metals prices, juniors on the TSX Venture Exchange enjoyed a year-end rally.
Lundin will control North Atlantic
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SW Res., partners explore southern Peru
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Crimes and culpability
Two court judgments, both delivered just before Christmas, are instructive not just for their content but for the way they let daylight in upon the magic of judicial thinking in Canada. It’s hard to pass up such a golden opportunity to see the ins…
Don’t hide mining generosity
The Dec. 26 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia and the tsunami that followed caused a disaster and tragedy that devastated countries around the Indian Ocean. In many of these countries, mining companies are exploring for and exploiting natural…