Orla Mining expands into Nevada with Gold Standard Ventures acquisition
Mexico-focused precious metals miner Orla Mining (TSX: OLA; NYSE: ORLA) is expanding its footprint into the U.S. with the acquisition of Gold Standard Ventures (TSX:…
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Gold shines on long-term dollar weakness
Investors in gold stocks have taken profits in one of the best years for investing in the precious metal in more than a decade.The high price of gold has been linked to the tensions with Iraq, but thi…
Deflation: Making sure ‘it’ doesn’t happen here
(The author is a governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.)Since the Second World War, inflation — the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services — has been the bane of central…
Commentary: Bullion market on the couch: a psychological assessment
Description: The patient, named Mr. Goldfinger for the purpose of this presentation, is a 5,000-plus-year-old commodity residing within the precious metals sector and in use all over the world. At Dec…
Spot Prices Wed. November 6, 2002
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$317.50+$0.35Silver$ 4.50+$0.02…
Gold coin fetches record sum
One of the world’s rarest and most sought-after gold collector coins, the 1933 Double Eagle, was sold at Sotheby’s auction house in New York, N.Y., for US$7.6 million, a new record.The bidding, in US$…
Base metals withstand US corporate scandal
Don’t panic.On the morning of Wednesday, June 26, in the wake of the latest example of gross U.S. corporate misgovernance, it would have taken a brave person to bet on base metals markets ending the w…
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (May 27, 2002)
DateMay 21May 20May 17May 16May 15HighLowTSX Composite7688.31Holiday7727.037738.117706.
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (May 20, 2002)
DateMay 14May 13May 10May 9May 8HighLowTSX Composite7716.917661.407596.067632.267707.82…
Base metals prices confound expectations
After a week (Jan. 28-Feb. 1) which saw copper move from severe vulnerability to the strongest technical close in more than six months and aluminum climb above US$1,400 per tonne, the base metals comp…
A critical time for Argentina
Mining, to a greater degree than most heavy industries, relies on demand from the emerging markets. Industrializing economies, historically, have used about twice as much metal per unit of production …
US data drag prices lower
Despite fresh production cuts in zinc and copper (in byproduct form), base metals prices continued to trend lower during the report period Oct. 29-Nov. 2, dominated by poor economic data out of the U….