Intent on achieving a processing rate of 44,000 tonnes of alluvial gravel per month by year-end, Calgary-based Monroe Minerals (MMX-V) is adding a third pan plant at its London diamond project in Sout…
Shareholders of Australian-based M.I.M. Holdings have approved a A$4.9-billion cash-and-debt takeover offer by Anglo-Swiss rival Xstrata.The world’s fourth-largest coal exporter received the support o…
Full-scale construction is under way at Glamis Gold’s (GLG-T) El Sauzal project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state.The change-of-land-use permit authorizing construction and operation of El Sauzal followed t…
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$2,570/t.Bismuth: Mid-mkt US$2.90/lb.Cadmium: Mid-mkt US$0.70/lb.Cobalt: Recent trades US$9.70-10.25/lb.Copper: Comex July US$0.770/lb.Indium: Indium Corp., ingot, US$140/kg.Iridiu…
Despite gold prices tumbling more than US$10 per oz. over the period, the U.S.-listed gold miners managed to hang on and end the week in positive territory.Among the gold majors: Newmont Mining jumped…
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)DateJune 10June 9June 6June 5June 4US$ in C$1.36481.35841.35401.3401…
A flurry of strikes around the world created havoc in the mining industry for the 1-week period ended June 10.Inco said a strike launched June 1 by 3,300 members of the United Steelworkers of America …
Vancouver — Drilling along the 2.2-km-long main Dolores zone has enhanced the economic prospects of the large gold system in Mexico’s Chihuahua state.Minefinders (MFL-T) has sunk an additional 40,500…
Benefiting from higher gold prices, Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) saw its first-quarter earnings soar to US$4.1 million.The earnings totalled 2 per share, compared a year-earlier profit of just US$2…
Gammon Lake Resources (GAM-T) has reported a new gold resource at its wholly owned Northeast Ocampo project in Mexico’s Chihuahua state.The new resource, audited by Pincock Allen & Holt, consists of u…
Underground drilling by partners FNX Mining (FNX-T) and Dynatec (DY-T) at the McCreedy West mine in Sudbury, Ont., continues to return high-grade values of copper, platinum, palladium and gold.The lat…
A British Broadcasting Corporation report in mid-May said the country’s chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, had decided the United Kingdom was “not ready” to accept the euro as its national cur…
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