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Spot Prices Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006 Courtesy of Scotiabank

Precious Metals Price (US$/oz.) Change
Gold $520.75 +15.00
Silver $9.04 +0.49
Platinum…



Only golds glitter in US market

U.S. equity markets weakened in the four trading days Dec. 27-30, with investors reacting to an inversion in the yield curve for government notes. Ten-year U.S. Treasuries closed the year showing a yi…


Venture board closes out 2005 on a high

Gold’s late-year rally through the US$500-per-oz. level lifted the S&P-TSX Venture Exchange to finish 2005 at a more than 9-year high of 2,236.55, up 45.99 points or 2.1% over the year’s final wee…







Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (January 09, 2006)


A truck hauls ore from the Pollyanna pit at Taseko Mines' Gibraltar copper-gold operation in south-central B.C. Taseko says reserves at Gibraltar are up 30% to 176 million tonnes grading 0.31% copper and 0.01% molybdenum.

Taseko posts $24.4 million in earnings

Vancouver — Strong copper and molybdenum prices propelled Taseko Mines (TKO-V, TGB-X) to after-tax earnings of $24.4 million (or 23 per share) in fiscal 2005….


Royal Gold buying Kennecott royalties

Vancouver — Royal Gold (RGL-T, RGLD-Q) is expanding its portfolio by spending US$25 million for a pair of royalties owned by Kennecott, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto


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Date Jan. 1 Dec. 30 Dec. 29 Dec. 28 Dec. 27 High Low
S&P/TSX-Ven Comp Holiday 2236.55