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Daily Metal Prices (September 11, 2006)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)…
Spot Prices (September 11, 2006)
COURTESY OF SCOTIABANK…
LME Warehouse Levels (September 11, 2006)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Sept. 4, 2006 (change from Aug. 28 in brackets):…
People (September 11, 2006)
SNC Lavalin — Michael Day appointed senior VP and managing director of subsidiary SNC-Lavalin Australia….
Producer and Dealer Prices (September 11, 2006)
TSX Venture Exchange Aug. 29 – Sept. 1
Solid metal prices coupled with further mining mergers continued to buoy the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index, which gained 68.41 points to close up 2.5% at 2,761.29 over the Aug. 29-Sept. 1 sessio…
U.S. Markets Aug. 29 – Sept. 1
Lower oil prices and a hurricane season that wasn’t as bad as feared kept trading activity on U.S. markets bubbling over the trading period Aug. 29-Sept. 1. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose 10…
Stornoway, Rio change break fee (September 11, 2006)
Stornoway Diamond (SWY-T, SWYDF-O) and Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) have agreed to changes in their lock-up agreement that would see a $2-million break fee paid out to all shareholders of Ashton Mining of…
Toronto Stock Exchange Aug. 29 – Sept. 1
Merger news in the gold sector and strong earnings from two of the big banks helped the TSX Composite Index fight through a mid-week slump over the holiday-shortened Aug.29-Sept. 1 period. The index w…
Suppliers News (September 11, 2006)
Boart buys driller, banks buy bit of Boart…
Inco on the brink-o (September 11, 2006)
Just a week after officially shunning Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) (rio-n) in favour of Phelps Dodge (PD-N), Inco (N-T, N-N) has terminated its combination agreement with the Arizona-based copper…