Spot Prices Tuesday November 18, 2003 Courtesy of Scotiabank
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$392.42+14.10Silver$5.21+0.28Platinum$762.00+20.00…
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Fury finds two zones at Windfall Lake
A new structural model drawn at Windfall Lake, in northwestern Quebec, seems to be holding up for Fury Explorations (FUR-V).Fury can earn a 37.5% interest in the property, which covers 534 ha (5.3 sq….
Sulliden outlines geochem targets at Shahuindo (November 24, 2003)
Reconnaissance soil geochemistry by Sulliden Exploration (SUE-T) at the Shahuindo property in Cajamarca department, northern Peru, has outlined targets with elevated gold concentrations.The 90-line-km…
Lending Rates (November 24, 2003)
as of 4 pm ET, Nov. 18, 2003(%)Bank of Canada3.00Target overnight rate2.75Canadian Prime4.50U.S. Discount Primary2.00U.S. Fed Funds market rate1.00U.S. Prime4.00LIBOR US$ 3-month1.17LIBOR US$ …
Partners test Trinidad South (November 24, 2003)
Globestar Mining (GMI-V) has launched a 2,000-metre drill program over the 3-sq.-km Trinidad South gold-in-soil anomaly on the Bayaguana gold project in the Dominican Republic.Globestar believes Trini…
Exchange Rates (November 24, 2003)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)DateNov. 18Nov. 17Nov. 14Nov. 13Nov. 12US$ in C$1.30241.31371.30381.2…
Producer and Dealer Prices (November 24, 2003)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$2,050/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$3.05/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.65/lb.Cobalt: Recent trades US$13.70-15.50/lb.Copper: Comex Dec. US$0.932/lb.Indium: Indium Corp., ingot, US$265/kg.Iridi…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (November 24, 2003)
DateNov. 18Nov. 17Nov. 14Nov. 13Nov. 12HighLowTSX Composite7737.39…
Miramar takes option on George Lake, Goose Lake (November 24, 2003)
In a deal with major Kinross Gold (K-T), junior producer Miramar Mining (MAE-T) has taken up an option to earn a 60% interest in the George Lake and Goose Lake gold properties in Nunavut.The basic ear…
Noranda’s CFO retires
Noranda’s (NRD-T) chief financial officer, Lars-Eric Johansson, has retired after 14 years of service.Johansson will remain with the company to help with the financing of Falconbridge’s (FL-T) Koniamb…
AMF inks Kolwezi deal
America Mineral Fields (AMZ-T) is another step closer to developing the Kolwezi cobalt-copper tailings project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.After 10 months of negotiations, the company has agre…
Court upholds Troilus award
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Homestake Canada, a subsidiary of Barrick Gold (ABX-T), against the January 2001 judgment of the province’s Supreme Court awarding $88 m…