Taseko Gets Provincial Nod For Prosperity
VANCOUVER — Taseko Mines (TKO-T) got a nice share price lift on news the provincial authorities gave the company’s Prosperity copper-gold project in central British Columbia an environmental stamp of…
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Duluth JVs With Antofagasta At Nokomis
It’s not very often that a junior Canadian explorer hooks a South American mining giant with a promising deposit — especially when the major has a market cap of US$16 billion. But when it happens, th…
Caerus Shares Crash
Vancouver-based Caerus Resource (CA-V) saw its share price nosedive after the company announced it would not be acquiring key assets in Colombia.
Anatolia Discusses Resettlement Hoops
Of the 50 families living near Anatolia Minerals’ (ANO-T) Copler gold-silver heap-leach project in central Turkey, the company is close to having resettlement agreements with all but one family.
Canadian Miners Help Out Haitian Quake Survivors
The second trading week of the year was highlighted by a large, spontaneous act of charity on the part of about 400 executives at some of Canada’s biggest and most successful mining and mining-related…
Aluminum Ripe For Turnaround, Macquarie Says
Before the bottom fell out of the aluminum market, global demand for the versatile metal was growing more strongly than for any other base metal, according to a research report by Macquarie Equity Mar…
GFMS Says Gold Could Dip In 2010
After topping US$1,200 per oz. in late 2009, gold could be in for a rough ride during the first half of this year, according to gold consultancy group GFMS.
Atlas Copco Expands To Louisiana
Compressor giant Atlas Copco of Stockholm, Sweden has expanded its business base once again. This time the target is the southern U.S.A.
WGM To Study Egypt’s Minerals Sector
Canadian mine consultant Watts, Griffis and McOuat, has been selected by an Egyptian industrial development agency to examine the desert country’s industrial minerals sector.
Lending Rates (January 25, 2010)
as of 9 a.m. ET. Jan. 19, 2010 (%) Bank of Canada 0.50 Target overnight rate 0.25 Canadian Prime 2.25 U.S. Discount Primary 0.50 U.S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U.S. Prime 3….
Exchange Rates (January 25, 2010)
CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Jan. 18 Jan. 15 Jan. 14 Jan. 13 Jan. 12 US$ in C$ 1.0251 1.0287 1.0261 1.0322 1.0375 C$ in US$ 0.9755 0.9721 0.9746 0.9688 0…
Freewest Tallies Black Thor Chromite Resource
The much-talked about Black Thor chromite deposit in the remote Ring of Fire camp of northwestern Ontario has an initial inferred resource of 69.55 million tonnes grading 31.9% chromite at a cut-off g…