Billion dollar Christmas bonus
With investors less than eager to tender to its original takeover offer, Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) has stuffed a …
Barrick Gold Corporation
Placer and Barrick take a breather
Investors cash in
Toronto stocks succumbed to a late bout of profit taking to end the Dec. 6-12 report period just 90.48 points higher at 11,099.26. The golds performed similarly, but finished 3.7% better at 236.99; th…
QGX encouraged by new gold and copper-gold prospects
Vancouver Early-stage exploration programs by QGX (QGX-T) in the Gobi region have added three new gold and copper…
UPDATE: Placer and Barrick take a breather
Placer Dome (PDG-T,PDG-N) and Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) took a break from a month-long sparring match on Dec. 11,…
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (December 12, 2005)
Just five weeks after agreeing to buy the major Canadian assets of
Barrick, Placer trade jabs
The emerging punch and counter-punch routine between
Gold Fields gets green light for Cerro Corona
Vancouver The Peruvian government has approved an environmental impact study for the Cerro Corona gold-copper pro…
Gold cracks US$500 per oz.
With gold briefly topping US$500 per oz. in Asian trading on Nov. 29, gold miners dominated the most-active list in U.S. trading, with
Miners take a breather
The Toronto Stock Exchange ended the Nov. 22-28 report period 21.87 points better at 10,939.21. The gold index yo-yo’d 1.12 points lower to 234.46, as the yellow metal tacked on US$7.05 to settle at U…
Barrick leaves bitter taste in Placer’s mouth
Miners get a bounce
Resource stocks bounced back on U.S. markets after last week’s “mini-correction” aimed mostly at coal and energy companies. Strong gold prices drove the rally over the report period Nov. 15-21, with b…