Loonie nears parity with greenback again
A resurgent Canadian dollar topped financial headlines during the tenth week of trading, as several economic indicators lined up in its favour.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
M&A deals in 2010 to outnumber 2009, says Fasken Martineau (March 22, 2010)
Last year, Fasken Martineau advised on 78 M&A deals valued at about $8 billion and the head of the law firm’s global mining group says he expects that number will grow in 2010.
A little more detail on Evolving’s Wyoming discovery
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PDAC awards night
On March 8, people from around the mining industry gathered at the Fairmont Royal York hotel in Toronto to celebrate this year’s winners of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada annual …
PEOPLE (March 22, 2010)
Alcoa — Marcos Ramos appointed president of Alcoa Europe and will continue as president of Global Primary Products Europe; Rudi Huber has retired as president of Alcoa Europe.
John Felderhof speaks out at PDAC
“What happened to me could happen to anybody,” John Felderhof, a former geologist and senior vice-president at Bre-X Minerals, told a small group gathered in a seminar room at the recent Prospectors a…
Correction (March 22, 2010)
The photo accompanying our Manitoba round up in our Exploration & Development Highlights section (T. N.M., March 8-14/10) was incorrectly identified as HudBay Minerals’ (HBM-T) 777 copper-zinc min…
TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE MARCH 9 – 15
The TSX composite index finished the March 9-15 period 12 points higher at 12,051. The strength of the index coincides with global investors increasingly heralding the Canadian economy for its perceiv…
TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE MARCH 9-15
A week of small gains and losses left the S&P/TSX Venture composite index essentially unchanged at the end of the March 9-15 trading period, closing down 0.42 point at 1561.51. Daily trading volum…
U.S. MARKETS MARCH 9-15
U.S. equity markets were fairly ho-hum in the March 9-15 reporting period with the Dow Jones industrial average inching up just 0.74% or 77.77 points to finish at 10,642.15 and the S&P 500 index g…
SPOT PRICES (March 22, 2010)
COURTESY OF SCOTIABANK
LME WAREHOUSE LEVELS (March 22, 2010)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, March 16, 2010 (change from Mar. 9 in brackets):