CVRD scoops up 76% of Inco, extends offer (October 24, 2006)
Brazil’s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO-N) is reporting that 174,623,019 shares of Inco (N-T, N-N) have been depos…
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Cameco’s Cigar Lake suffers major setback
Vancouver – Mine development at Cameco’s (CCO-T, CCJ-N) 50%-owned Cigar Lake uranium project in the Athabasca Basin…
Teachers back McEwen
Rob McEwen’s efforts to force a vote by Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) shareholders on the proposed US$8.6-billion takeover o…
Nuinsco climbs on high grade nickel concentrate
Metallurgical test results from Nuinsco Resources’ (NWI-T) wholly owned Minago deposit came in, and the news is goo…
Strike averted at Teck’s Highland Valley
Vancouver — Teck Cominco (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) and Local 7619 of the United Steelworkers of America have averted a strike at the Highland Valley copper mine, 60 km southwest of Kamloops, B.C., with worker…
Dividends (October 23, 2006)
Company Div. Pay Record ($) Date Date Royal Gold 0.055* Oct 20 Oct 6 Goldcorp 0.015* Oct 27 Oct 20 Pr Mtls Mng Trust 0.05…
Canadian Gold Mutual Funds (October 23, 2006)
Fund name Oct 16($) Oct 6($) Change($) Change(%) YTD(%) MER*(%) Assets*(M$) AGF Pr Mtl 22.66 22.13 0.53 2.4 38.9 2.68 407 Altamira Pr & Str…
CNQ Trading (October 23, 2006)
Oct. 10-16, 2006
Toronto Stock Exchange October 10-16
The market made a healthy gain over the Oct. 10-16 trading session, as both gold and base metals rallied. Overall the TSX Composite Index gained 3% to 12,061.54. Gold was up US$16.85 per oz., pushing …
Trouble afoot in markets
COMMENTARY — The following is the first of three edited parts of a speech presented at the recent Silver Summit in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. I…
Editorial: McEwen’s right, but does anyone still care?
While Rob McEwen and Ian Telfer are two of mining’s most successful CEOs, you couldn’t get more pronounced differences in personality and style, with McEwen, the obsessive maverick, embodying the clas…
When it rains it pours in Pine Valley
The list of problems for junior coal-producer Pine Valley Mining (PVM-T, PVMCF-O) is long: a washplant with poor recoveries; a pit with more oxidized coal than expected; and a loan agreement that coul…