LENDING RATES (April 05, 2010)
Metal lease rates from www.kitco.com
Volume 96 Number 7 - Apr 5 - Apr 11, 2010
EXCHANGE RATES (April 05, 2010)
CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Mar. 29 Mar. 26 Mar. 25 Mar. 24 Mar. 23 US$ in C$ 1.0203 1.0285 1.0188 1.0267 1.0178 C$ in US$ 0.9801 0.9727 0.9815 0.9740 0…
INTERNATIONAL QUOTES (April 05, 2010)
Australia (A$) Mar 30 Mar 23 Change Aquila Resources 10.65 10.65 0 Bendigo Mining 0.23 0.24 -0.01 Centennial Coal 4.15 4.13 0.02 Fortescue Res 4.96 4.79 0.17 Iluka Re…
Quadra to hook up with FNX
Only weeks after copper producer Quadra Mining (QUA-T, QADMF-O) struck a US$900-million joint-venture deal with China’s State Grid International Development, a subsidiary of State Grid Corp. of China,…
Carpathian proves positive economics at Rovina
VANCOUVER–After four years and more than 71,000 metres of drilling, Carpathian Gold (CPN-T) has defined a gold-copper resource in Romania that could support a combined open-pit and underground mining…
PC Gold’s ‘surprising’ find at Pickle Crow
VANCOUVER– PC Gold( PKL-T) has cut some very rich gold intercepts in a newly-discovered vein at its Pickle Crow property near Thunder Bay, Ont., and the news sent its stock price skyward.
PEOPLE (April 05, 2010)
Allied Gold– Terence Harvey appointed an independent non-executive director.
First Uranium raising $150M in convertible notes (April 05, 2010)
First Uranium (FIU-T) is on its way to raising some desperately needed capital that will allow it to build a third gold plant for its Mine Waste Solutions project 160 km north of Johannesburg, South A…
Komatsu-Cummins fires up its 500,000th engine
The Komatsu-Cummins Engine Company (KCEC) recently has announced the production of its 500,000th engine at its plant in Oyama, Japan.
ATCO stocks up on camp gear in Timmins
Mining infrastructure company ATCO Structures & Logistics (ASL) is set to acquire the assets of Timmins, Ont.-based Woodgreen Homes & Trailer Sales.
AMEC snaps up contract for feasibility study at Kitsault
U.K.-based consultants AMEC (AMEC-L) have been pegged by Avanti Mining (AVT-V) to prepare a feasibility study for the Kitsault molybdenum mine in northern British Columbia.
Vale Inco renews ABB deal at Voisey’s Bay
Swiss automation and engineering giant ABB (ABB-N) has just signed an agreement with Vale Inco, a subsidiary of Vale (VALE-N) to cover equipment maintenance at the company’s Voisey’s Bay nickel mine i…