News
People (October 16, 2006)
Altius Mnrls — Ben Lewis appointed CFO; Lawrence Winter appointed VP of exploration….
LME Warehouse Levels (October 16, 2006)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Oct. 9, 2006 (change from Oct. 2 in brackets):…
Shahuindo dispute finished (October 16, 2006)
Sulliden Exploration (sue-t, exsdf-o) has assumed title to the Shahuindo mining concessions in Peru following a lengthy arbritration and court battle….
Lake to talk to Toronto CIM
Darryl Lake, the executive director and CEO of the Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) in Sudbury, Ont., will be the guest speaker at the next industry luncheon for second-year students o…
Suppliers News (October 16, 2006)
Kimberley awards A$120M contract for Ellendale …
U.S. Markets october 3-9
Stock markets in the United States enjoyed a slow but steady climb between Oct. 3 and Oct. 9, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 187.46 points to 11,857.81 and the Standard & Poor’s 500…
TSX Venture Exchange october 3-6
The S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index continued its decline in tandem with softer gold prices over the holiday-shortened Oct. 3-6 trading session, shedding 88.15 points to close at 2,365.66 as inves…
Toronto Stock Exchange october 3-6
The TSX Composite Index fell over the Thanksgiving holiday-shortened Oct. 3-6 trading period, dropping 96.5 points to 112,690.89 following the previous week’s rally….
PDAC develops guidelines to protect fish
NEW HORIZONS…
603-ct Lesotho diamond sells for US$12M
South African Diamond (Safdico), the manufacturing arm of London-based jeweller Laurence Graff, paid US$12.36 million for the 603-carat “Lesotho Promise Diamond” found at the Letseng diamond mine in L…
Editorial: Kimberley in America: three years on
More than three years into the international adoption of the Kimberley process for the tracking and certification of rough diamond trading, a new report by the United States Government Accountability…