LME Warehouse Levels (May 01, 2006)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, April 24, 2006 (change from April 17 in brackets):…
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U.S.Markets April 18-24
United States stock markets had nearly steady gains during the reporting period April 18-24, as the Federal Reserve Bank’s Open Market Committee indicated general satisfaction with the U.S. economy. W…
TSX Venture Exchange April 18-24
Metal and commodity prices held their strength over the April 18-24 trading session, which pushed the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index up 4.54 points to 3,095.85. The spotlight was on juniors repor…
Toronto Stock Exchange April 18-24
Profit taking saw the Toronto Stock Exchange ease from an earlier record-high close to end the April 18-24 report period 33.21 points better at 12,342.23. The gold miners managed to rebound and finish…
Goldcorp sees expanded Los Filos feasibility (May 01, 2006)
Vancouver — Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) has incorporated the adjacent Bermejal deposit into the recently revised feasibility study on its Los Filos gold deposit in southern Mexico….
Miramar grows Hope Bay resource (May 01, 2006)
Vancouver — A significant resource increase at its Hope Bay gold project, in Nunavut, has Miramar Mining (MAE-T, MNG-X) pumped up about possible expanded development of the deposits….
Sparring partners approve FalC budget (May 01, 2006)
Despite ongoing legal wrangling, the Fort la Corne (FalC) joint-venture partners have unanimously approved a whopping $43.2-million exploration budget for their 225-sq.-km diamond project, about 60…
Cumberland makes steady gains at Meadowbank
Vancouver — When it comes to developing new mines in Canada’s North, the race is almost never to the swift, but rather to the steady. Cumberland Resources (CLG-T, CLG-X) appears to be making steady p…
Eloro cuts zinc at Hurdman (May 01, 2006)
A drilling program by Eloro Resources (ELO-V, ELRRF-O) at the Hurdman property, 25 km north of Smooth Rock Falls, Ont., has intersected zinc-silver mineralization along the strike extension of known m…
Antofagasta gets Tethyan (April 28, 2006)
Shareholders of Tethyan Copper (TYCFF-O, TYC-A) have tendered about 96% of their shares to a takeover offer fro…
Ekati mine unfazed by strike
Three weeks into its first-ever strike, BHP Billiton’s (BHP-N) 7-year-old Ekati diamond mine, about 300 km northeas…
Strike looms over Yanacocha (April 28, 2006)
Roughly two weeks after a group of workers at Latin America’s biggest mine returned to work, miners at Peru’s Yanac…