Gold breaks barrier as silver, nickel soar
A strong rally sent gold US$9.55 higher over the five trading days to a London morning fix of US$401.05 per oz. on Dec. 2. It’s the first time the yellow metal has surpassed the psychological barrier …
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LME Warehouse Levels (December 08, 2003)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Dec. 2 (change from Nov. 24 in brackets):MetalStock(tonnes)ChangeAluminium1394850(+16…
Junior exchange rides golden bull
Vancouver — Canada’s junior exchange continued its bull run as gold broke through the US$400-per-oz. mark over the 5-day trading period ended Dec. 2. The S&P-TSX Venture Exchange composite index rock…
Trading Summary (December 05, 2003)
Overall, it was a fairly quiet day in TSX trading, the S&P/TSX composite index was virtually frozen at 7,990.28 poi…
Sur samples gold-bearing skarn at Comval (December 05, 2003)
Surface exploration at the Comval property in the Eastern Mindanao mineral belt of the Philippines has turned up mo…
Rio Blanco pre-feasibility study looks good
Pre-feasibility work for London-base Monterrico Metals (MNA-L) at the Rio Blanco copper project in northern Peru ha…
New life for Hecla’s Lucky Friday
It was a lucky Friday morning for employees at Hecla Mining’s (HL-N) underground Lucky Friday silver mine in northe…
Golden Star finds new zone at Wassa
Denver-based Golden Star Resources (GSC-T) has found a new gold-mineralized zone at its Wassa property in Ghana, fu…
Rio Narcea to drive ramp at Aguablanca (December 05, 2003)
Anxious to catch the peak of nickel prices, Rio Narcea Gold (RNG-T) now plans to begin underground development of i…
Andina on strike
Vancouver – The supply of copper concentrates on the world’s market got a little bit tighter after workers walked…
DRC Resources cuts gold at Afton
Vancouver — DRC Resources (DRC-T) has intersected shallow porphyry gold mineralization about 1 km southeast of the…
Milling tests positive at Shakespeare
Test milling of drill core samples from the Shakespeare copper-nickel project west of Sudbury, Ont., has successful…