Gold’s higher highs
Gold bugs enjoyed another delightful week, as spot gold prices scored three new all-time nominal highs in five days, and traded at a lofty US$1,295 per oz. at presstime in the face of a new round of d…
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Stainless steel production for first half of 2010: More than 40% increase
Preliminary figures released by the International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) show that stainless steel and crude steel production has tremendously increased in the first half of 2010 by 44.3% compar…
TSX VENTURE SHORT POSITIONS (September 27, 2010)
Short positions outstanding at Aug. 31/10 (with changes from Aug. 15/10).
American Mining Hall of Fame gears up for celebrations
The 28th annual American Mining Hall of Fame Awards Banquet and Fundraiser will be held in Tucson, Ariz., on Dec. 4, 2010.
DIVIDENDS (September 27, 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 $3.75* cmltv pr stock on Oct 1, rec Sept 10. Franco-Nevada monthly div of 0.025 starting in J…
CANADIAN GOLD MUTUAL FUNDS (September 27, 2010)
*as of June 30/10
LENDING RATES (September 27, 2010)
Metal lease rates from www.kitco.com
INTERNATIONAL QUOTES (September 27, 2010)
Australia (A$) 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 (September 27, 2010)
CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Sept 20 Sept 17 Sept 16 Sept 15 Sept 14 US$ in C$ 1.0281 1.0331 1.0274 1.0282 1.00222 C$ in US$ 0.9727 0.9680 0.9733 0.9726 …
One long copper-gold intercept propels Intrepid
Intrepid Mines (IAU-T, IAU-A) hit upon its best intercept yet at its Tujuh Bukit sulphide copper-gold project in Indonesia and the market took notice.
Single hole at Rau lifts Atac
All it took was one hole for Atac Resources (ATC-V) to catch investors’ attention.
Magma ups resource at Thunder Bay North
An updated resource, based on nearly twice as much drilling as the previous estimate completed a year ago, reveals that the Thunder Bay North platinum-palladium-copper- nickel project in northwestern Ontario contains 708,000 platinum-…