Daily Metal Prices (April 03, 2006)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)…
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LME Warehouse Levels (April 03, 2006)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, March 27, 2006 (change from March 20 in brackets):…
U.S. Markets March 21-27
U.S. stock markets were jittery ahead of a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Open Market Committee, which was widely expected to announce a quarter-point increase in the central bank’s interest ra…
TSX Venture Exchange March 21-27
The junior mining-dominated TSX Venture Composite Index continued to build on recent gains to close at a new high of 2,770.56 over the March 21-27 session, up 95.23 points, or 3.6%. Average daily trad…
Toronto Stock Exchange March 21-27
With investors’ heads swimming with visions of double-doubles and Timbits, the S&P-TSX Composite Index eased back from a record high to end the March 21-27 report period 149.2 points better at 12,…
SouthernEra Diamonds poised for a comeback
It’s been a while since SouthernEra Diamonds’ (SDM-T, SDMFF-O) share price touched $20 — eight-and-a-half years, to be exact. Since then, its shares have fallen on hard times; in the last year, the h…
Antares expands Haquira
Drilling by Antares Minerals (ANM-V, ANMFF-O) at the Haquira porphyry-copper project in southern Peru has intersected high-grade leachable copper mineralization on a western extension of the known dep…
Gold Fields to pour cash into Essakane
South African mining house Gold Fields (GFI-N, GOF-L, GOGOF-J) has budgeted US$9.3 million for exploration and prefeasibility work on the Essakane project in northeastern Burkina Faso, a joint venture…
People (April 03, 2006)
Breakwater Res. — Richard Godfrey to resign as VP of finance and CFO in June….
Juniors fuel Niger’s latest uranium boom
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Mugabe’s meltdown
By all accounts, Amos Midzi, Zimbabwe’s minister of mines, is a mild-mannered soul….
Supplier News (April 03, 2006)
Atlas Copco helps build Sudbury attraction…