TSX Venture Short Positions (October 12, 2009)
Short positions outstanding at Sept. 30/09 (with changes from Sept. 15/09).
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Canadian Gold Mutual Funds (October 12, 2009)
*as of June 30/09
Dividends (October 12, 2009)
Note:Vale will pay $0.4795 for common and prf class A shares on Oct 30. Alcoa will pay US93.75 cents per share on its US$3.75 cmltv prf stk payable Jan 1, record close Dec 11.
Lending Rates (October 12, 2009)
as of 5 p. m. ET. Oct 5, 2009 (%) Bank of Canada 0.50 Target overnight rate 0.25 Canadian Prime 2.25 U. S. Discount Primary 0.50 U. S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U. S. Prime …
Exchange Rates (October 12, 2009)
CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Oct. 5 Oct. 2 Oct. 1 Sept. 30 Sept. 29 US$ in C$ 1.0757 1.0845 1.0774 1.0722 1.0871 C$ in US$ 0.9296 0.9221 0.9282 0.9327 0….
International Quotes (October 12, 2009)
Australia (A$) Oct. 5 Sept. 29 Change Aquila Resources 7.05 6.85 0.2 Bendigo Mining 0.24 0.24 0.00 Centennial Coal 3.12 3.21 -0.09 Fortescue Res 3.59 3.90 -0.31 Iluka…
Castle Gold Makes Progress At La Fortuna
Assay results from surface mapping and sampling at Castle Gold’s (CSG-V, CSGLF-O) 100%-owned La Fortuna concessions in the northwestern corner of Mexico’s Durango state have returned up to 41.1 grams …
First Resource For La Mancha’s Hassai Project In Sudan
The Hassai mine — made up of 12 open pits that have been mined since 1992 in the Red Sea Hills desert of northeastern Sudan, about 450 km from Khartoum– is Sudan’s first and only gold mine. Montreal…
Fletcher Nickel Likes What It Sees Near Timmins
Nearly two years after listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Fletcher Nickel (FL-T) is well on its way to proving that it has a large-tonnage, near-surface nickel resource on its hands that could be …
Avalon Upgrades Thor Lake
Avalon Rare Metals (AVL-T, AVARF-O) has outlined enough resources to warrant going ahead with a prefeasibility study on its Thor Lake rare metals project, 100 km southeast of Yellowknife, N. W. T.
How Minefinders Lived Up To Its Name
About 15 years ago, Mark Bailey, then a consulting geologist for Minefinders (MFL-T, MFN-X), walked away from the company and its grassroots La Bolsa silver-gold project in northern Sonora, Mexico, because he felt management was more concerned…
Esperanza Sizes Up Jumil
Esperanza Silver’s (EPZ-V, ESPZF-O) 100%-owned Cerro Jumil project, an advanced open-pit heap-leach gold project south of Cuernavaca in Mexico’s Morelos state, should yield a pretax net present value (NPV) of about US$46.7 million and an…