Teck to join Suncor at Wintering Hills
Teck Resources (TCK. B-T, TCK-N) has signed a joint-venture agreement with Suncor Energy (SU-T, SU-N) to develop the Wintering Hills wind energy project, 20 km southeast of Drumheller, Alta.
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Detour Gold signs trucking contract
Toromont Industries (an Ontario Caterpillar dealer) has won a contract to supply up to 36 350-ton class Caterpillar 795F haulage trucks for Detour Gold’s (DGC-T) Detour Lake gold project in northeaste…
Barrick to deploy new driving safety system
Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) will invest $16 million to install driver monitoring systems in its fleet of vehicles worldwide. The technology was developed by Utah-based inthinc Technology Solutions, wh…
OP-ED
PEOPLE Blackstone Ventures — Stuart Angus, Kelvin Dushnisky and Michael Knuckey resigned as directors; Don Njegovan appointed a director. Camino Minerals — Francois Gaboury appointed chief geologist. CB Gold —…
TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE -Sept. 20-24
The TSX composite index was up a modest 14 points to finish the Sept 20-24 period at 12,204.86. The big story was the Canadian dollar’s failure to rise despite a weakening U.S. greenback. While most m…
TSX VENTURE SHORT POSITIONS (October 04, 2010)
Short positions outstanding at Sept. 15/10 (with changes from Aug. 31/10).
DIVIDENDS (October 04, 2010)
Note: Vale will pay $0.24* per outstanding common or prf sh on Oct 20. Alcoa will pay a $0.9375* div on it $3.75* cmltv pr stock on Oct 1, rec Sept 10. Franco-Nevada monthly div of 0.025 starting in J…
LENDING RATES (October 04, 2010)
as of 9 a.m. ET. Aug. 23, 2010 (%) Bank of Canada 1.00 Target overnight rate 0.75 Canadian Prime 2.75 U.S. Discount Primary 0.75 U.S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U.S. Prime 3….
INTERNATIONAL QUOTES (October 04, 2010)
Australia (A$) Aug 24 Aug 17 Change Aquila Resources 8.3 8.69 -0.39 Bendigo Mining 0.18 0.18 0.00 Centennial Coal 6.03 6.04 -0.01 Fortescue Res 4.50 4.56 -0.06 Iluka …
EXCHANGE RATES (October 04, 2010)
CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Sept 27 Sept 24 Sept 23 Sept 22 Sept 21 US$ in C$ 1.0260 1.0263 1.0310 1.0327 1.0315 C$ in US$ 0.9747 0.9744 0.9699 0.9683 0…
Sandspring adds to Toroparu resource (October 04, 2010)
VANCOUVER — Sandspring Resources’ (SSP-V) latest resource estimate has added considerable tonnage to the inferred resource for its Toroparu gold-copper project in Guyana just as the company releases …
Exeter grows Caspiche ahead of prefeasibility work (October 04, 2010)
VANCOUVER — The already sizable Caspiche gold-copper porphyry in Chile has grown again and the confidence in the resource has increased, thanks to a 20,000-metre drill program by owner Exeter Resourc…