CANADIAN GOLD MUTUAL FUNDS (April 12, 2010)
*as of Jan. 31/10
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
TSX VENTURE SHORT POSITIONS (April 12, 2010)
Short positions outstanding at Mar. 15/10 (with changes from Feb. 28/10).
LENDING RATES (April 12, 2010)
as of 9 a.m. ET. April 7, 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 (April 12, 2010)
CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Apr. 5 Apr. 2 Apr. 1 Mar. 31 Mar. 30 US$ in C$ 1.0025 Holiday 1.0075 1.0955 1.0188 C$ in US$ 0.9975 Holiday 0.9926 0.9846 0….
INTERNATIONAL QUOTES (April 12, 2010)
Australia (A$) Apr 6 Mar 30 Change Aquila Resources 10.89 10.65 0.24 Bendigo Mining 0.23 0.23 0.00 Centennial Coal 4.37 4.13 0.24 Fortescue Res 5.04 4.96 0.08 Iluka R…
Hard Creek’s Turnagain pricey but profitable
VANCOUVER — Hard Creek Nickel (HNC-T) sizable Turnagain nickel-cobalt deposit in northwest British Columbia could support a large, open-pit mine producing 77 million lbs. nickel a year, according to …
Allied Gold adds to PNG resources (April 12, 2010)
Allied Gold (ALG-T, ALD-A) has increased measured and indicated resources by 170% at its Simberi open-pit oxide gold project in Papua New Guinea.
Agnico bids for Comaplex
Agnico-Eagle Mines’s (AEM-T, AEM-N) latest takeover offer shows the company is keeping a steady eye on future growth even as it continues putting mines into production.
Century Mining’s drive to restart Lamaque
These are busy days for Century Mining( CMM-V).
$1-B lawsuit against TSX, Copper Mesa could last years
Copper Mesa Mining, two of its directors and the Toronto Stock Exchange have asked an Ontario Superior Court judge to dismiss a $1- billion human rights lawsuit filed by three people from the village …
Editorial: Grim time for US coal miners
As we go to press, the worst mining disaster in the U.S. or Canada in more than two decades has just occurred at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch underground metallurgical coal mine in Montcoal, W. Va…
Chinese demand drives boron industry: Roskill
In the thirteenth century Marco Polo brought borax glazes, a compound of boron from his travels in Asia back with him to Italy. Eight hundred years later, demand continues to seesaw between the East a…