North American stock exchange indices
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Volume 97 Number 26 Aug 15 - 21, 2011
What’s not to like about Hathor?
Mike Gunning likes the fact that he can get from his desk in downtown Vancouver to within just a few kilometres of Hathor Exploration’s (HAT-T) flagship Roughrider uranium deposit in northern Saskatchewan by booking a commercial flight…
Daily metal prices
DateAug 8Aug 5Aug 4Aug 3Aug 2
Producer and dealer prices
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$14,750.00/t
LME warehouse levels
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Aug 8, 2011 (change from Aug 1 in brackets):
Spot prices
Tuesday, Aug 9, 2011
Market news
Toronto Stock Exchange
Obituary: Scintrex founder Harry Seigel a giant of geophysics
Canadian mining has its “Greatest Generation” too, and lost one of its foremost members with the passing of geophysicist extraordinaire Harold O. Seigel on July 13 at North York General Hospital in Toronto.
Commentary: What you need to know about changes to NI 43-101
Canada is home to the majority of the world’s public mining companies and the majority of mining company financings are completed in Canada. As a result, Canada has one of the most developed regulatory systems for mining companies, and its…
Editorial: Hello, US$1,800 gold
August 5 was a day for the history books, as Standard and Poor’s lowered its rating on America’s long-term sovereign credit to “AA+” from “AAA” with a “negative outlook.” This is the first-ever downgrade of the U.S. debt by a major bond-rating…
Cashed-up Century Iron exploring Quebec, Labrador
Backed by deep-pocketed investors, Century Iron Mines (FER-V) has launched as a new iron play in Quebec and the Labrador Trough.
Market shrugs for NovaGold’s Galore Creek PFS
NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-X) has released a new prefeasibility study (PFS) for its 50%-owned Galore Creek copper-gold project in northern B.C. nearly six years after completing it the first time around.