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Exchange Rates (February 16, 2009)

CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Feb. 9 Feb. 6 Feb. 5 Feb. 4 Feb. 3 US$ in C$ 1.2192 1.2389 1.2303 1.2266 1.2337 C$ in US$ 0.8202 0.8072 0.8128 0.8153 0.8106…


Daily Metal Prices (February 16, 2009)

Date Feb. 9 Feb. 6 Feb. 5 Feb. 4 Feb. 3 BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne) Al Alloy 1085/1120 1099/1130 1071/1110 1060/1100 1045/1076 A…




Federal Court Rules For Barrick In Cortez Hills Case

A U. S. judge has ruled against a preliminary injunction that would have halted construction at Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) Cortez Hills gold project in eastern Nevada, disappointing groups who oppo…



International Quotes (February 16, 2009)

Australia (A$) Feb 10 Feb 3 Change Bendigo Mining 0.17 0.18 -0.01 Kingsgate Cons. 3.59 3.72 -0.13 Lion Selection Ltd 0.66 0.67 -0.01 Newcrest Mining 32.00 30.00 2.00 …



Drilling at International Tower Hill Mines' Livengood gold project, 110 km north of Fairbanks, Alaska. A new resource estimate has boosted the deposit's gold count by 70%.

Livengood Grows To 6.8M Oz. Gold For Tower Hill

VANCOUVER — With its Livengood project, 110 km north of Fairbanks, Alaska, International Tower Hill Mines (ITH-V, THM-X) already had a significant gold deposit amenable to bulk-tonnage heap leaching …


Hecla Restructures Debt, Raises US$65.6M

Hecla Mining (HL-N) is juggling debt and issuing shares to help repay a loan it took to buy out its majority partner Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) at their co-owned Greens Creek silver mine, near Juneau in…


Mesquite Mine Back In The Saddle

With one year of operations at the past-producing Mesquite gold mine under its belt, Western Goldfields (WGI-T, WGW-X) reports it churned out 110,410 oz. gold for 2008, just short of the 117,000 oz. g…


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