Mongolia drops tax bombshell
Vancouver — From left field, and late on a Friday night, Mongolia’s parliament shocked Western mineral explorers by passing a windfall profit tax, which calls for a 68% levy on copper and gold operat…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
EuroZinc Mining draws market attention
EuroZinc Mining (EZM-T, EZM-X) has been a popular mining stock lately and it continued to draw heavy trading with the announcement of its first-quarter earnings….
Editorial: Teck bid for Inco shakes up industry
Noranda’s friendly takeover of Falconbridge last year had felt inevitable to most of us for years before its announcement….
Toronto Stock Exchange May 9-15
A pullback in commodity prices dragged the TSX Composite Index down 496.48 points, or 4.2% to 11,831.73 over the May 9-15 session; the downward trend was said to be the result of price corrections aft…
TSX Venture Exchange May 9-15
Sharp corrections in commodity prices precipitated a major drop in the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index, which shed 4.7%, or 150.24 points, to close at 3,029.49 over the May 9-15 trading session. A…
U.S. Markets May 9-15
Stock markets in the United States saw heavy selling between May 10 and May 12 in response to a tightening Federal Reserve Bank, making the reporting period May 9-15 a losing one. The Standard & P…
LME Warehouse Levels (May 22, 2006)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, May 8, 2006 (change from May 1 in brackets):…
Peoles’ Q1 profits soar (May 22, 2006)
Vancouver — The world’s top silver producer, Industrias Peoles (IPOAF-O), more than doubled its first-quarter profits in 2006 over the previous year’s corresponding period, due to soaring metal pric…
Queenstake cuts Jerritt Canyon high-grade (May 22, 2006)
Vancouver — Underground drilling by mid-tier gold producer Queenstake Resources (QRL-T, QEE-X) at its Jerritt Canyon mining complex, in northeastern Nevada, has returned significant intervals of high…
Daily Metal Prices (May 22, 2006)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)…
Spot Prices Courtesy of Scotiabank Tuesday, May 16, 2006
| Precious Metals | Price (US$/oz.) | Change |
| Gold | $681.00 | +1.25 |
| Silver | $13.22 | -0.68 |
Platinum…
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