The 7-day report period beginning Oct. 20 saw the price of gold rise US$8.15 to close at US$427.50 per oz. in the afternoon of Oct. 26 in London. During the week, gold hit a near 16-year peak; on Oct. 26, however, it fell $1.65. The gold index ro…
Despite a tough weekend, U.S. equity markets were little-changed over the report period Oct. 20-26. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 9.14 points at 9,888.48 and the S&P 500 rose 7.86 points to 1,111.09.
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Quadrem gets bigger…
A Kentucky coal company has been fined more than US$500,000 for violations stemming from a June 2003 explosion that killed a miner and injured two others.
There’s still nothing like a fashionable commodity to bring out the explorers, and nickel’s ascendancy is probably the best thing that has happened to Canadian exploration since, well, the last big nickel discovery.
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