Viceroy rolls the dice in Argentina
Vancouver — Northwestern Argentina is an emerging gold district relative to the prolific, more mature El Indio and Maricunga belts across the mountains in neighbouring Chile. Yet junior companies such as
Bema Gold Corporation
Stronger gold price fuels trading
The holiday-shortened week of May 19-25 saw considerable market activity, with the 10 most active companies all trading more than 6 million shares. (The markets were closed in Toronto on May 24 because of Victoria Day.)…
Bema moves to trim operating losses
Vancouver — The challenges of operating a far-flung roster of mines pushed
Bema gets Kupol preliminary assessment
Vancouver – A positive Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) has been released for Bema Gold’s (BGO-T) Kupol gold-s…
Exercise program good for gold company execs
The recovery of gold equities allowed various gold company executives to cash in on low-priced stock options in the past month. Insider trading transactions reported in the April 2004 issue of the OSC Bulletin include the following:…
Chinese economy affects gold markets
The mere hint of a potential slowdown in the torrid growth of China’s economy helped shave a painful US$50 per oz. off gold prices over the past month, dropping spot prices into the US$380-per-oz. range.
A week of highs and lows
The week of May 12-May 18 saw a lot of ups and downs on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The spot price for gold in London on the afternoon of May 18 closed at US$377.70 per oz., up US$2.45 from the previous week. The S&P-TSX composite index closed on…
Costs climb at Cerro Casale
Vancouver —
Intrepid’s Salvadoran prospect promising
A grassroots gold discovery in eastern El Salvador is returning some encouraging numbers for
Monument Bay yields gold
Drilling by partners Bema Gold (BGO-T) and Wolfden Resources (WLF-T) has intersected two gold-mineralized shoots near the Twin Lakes West zone on the Monument Bay property, 650 km northeast of Winnipe…
Broad market unfazed by Hussein’s arrest
The capture of Saddam Hussein over the Dec. 10-16 report period was certainly a political triumph for the U.S., but two subsequent car bombings in the country’s capital left investors here at home ske…
Kinross, Bema aim to restart Refugio
Mining at the Refugio heap-leach gold operation, near Copiapo, Chile, is set to resume.The mine is owned equally by Kinross Gold (K-T) and Bema Gold (BGO-T), with the former acting as operator. The mi…