Selwyn advances on two fronts
Rather than fuss with fickle equity and debt markets, Selwyn Resources (SWN-V) wants to raise some of the cash it needs from its own assets.
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Sandstorm gets cashed-up
Sandstorm Gold (SSL-V) is looking to raise $150 million so it can add to its precious-metal streams. The sum is comprised of $130 million from a bought-deal financing at $10 per unit, plus up to $20 million from underwriters who can buy…
First Majestic improves Del Toro’s prospects
First Majestic Silver (FR-T) is busy building its Del Toro silver project, which is set to become its fifth producing silver mine in Mexico, with initial production expected by year-end.
US markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index ended a five-week winning streak despite glimmers of hope that the U.S. Federal Reserve may provide more stimulus, and news that the European Central Bank could set targets in a new…
Metals, mining and money markets
SPOT PRICESCourtesy of ScotiaBankTuesday, August 7, 2012 Precious MetalsPrice…
Slower, lower, weaker at Olympic Dam
The beleaguered uranium subsector got a bit of an indirect boost in late August. The world’s biggest miner, BHP Billiton, declared as part of its year-end results that the 800-pound radioactive gorilla in the room — a planned…
Letters to the editor: Barkerville article ‘disturbing’
We have been very long-time subscribers of your newspaper as a source of factually correct information in the mining industry. We want to draw your attention to some serious errors found in your article, “Barkerville in the doghouse with…
Letters to the editor: TNM discriminating against chrysotile asbestos
What a deception to read in your editorial, “Ooh la la: Is Plan Nord becoming Plan Non?” (T.N.M. Aug. 20–26/12) that you qualify the support to chrysotile asbestos mining in the Eastern Townships by the Quebec and federal…
Plus a change: a trip down memory lane with Frank Callaghan’s International Wayside at Cariboo
With all the hullabaloo swirling around Barkerville Gold Mines (BGM-V) and the new resource estimate for its Cow Mountain gold deposit in central B.C. that has led to a trading halt imposed on the stock by the B.C. Securities Commission…
Short position reports
TSX Short Positions Short positions outstanding at Aug 15/12 (with changes from July…
Exchange rates
EXCHANGE RATES CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Aug 6 Aug 3 Aug 2 Aug 1 July 31 US$ in C n/a 0.9986 1.0062 1.0017 1.0014 …
Sabina Gold & Silver makes progress in Nunavut
Drill results from Sabina Gold & Silver’s (SBB-T, SGSVF-O) Back River project in southwestern Nunavut — 520 km northeast of Yellowknife, and 50 km southeast of Xstrata Zinc’s Hackett River silver-zinc project —…