TSE Short Positions (August 19, 2002)
Short positions outstanding at July 31, 2002Larger individual positions includeAgnico-Eagle 5,867,009 up 808,433; Alcan Inc. 871,161 down 324,145; Aur Resources 579,245 down 56,116;…
Gabriel Resources Limited
Kinross no longer Greystar insider
Recent insider trading transactions reported by the Ontario Securities Commission include the following:o Alamos Minerals (AAS-V) — Chester Millar, director, bought 70,000 shares at 39-57, sold 139,…
Blow to TVX in Greece casts pall over market
The final day of the Feb. 27-March 5 report period saw the Bank of England dump another 643,200 oz. gold on the open market. The bank’s latest auction fetched US$296.50 for every ounce sold and was 3….
Battle brewing over control of Valerie Gold
Vancouver — As was the case with many junior explorers, 1996 was a stellar year for Valerie Gold (VLG-V). With $20 million in the kitty and with the drill rig set to turn on the prospective Mamatla m…
Eur. Goldfields raises funds
European Goldfields (EGU-V) has completed a non-brokered private placement of 1.5 million shares priced at $3.10 apiece.The company intends to use the $4.6 million in gross proceeds to fund exploratio…
Wheaton, Kinross close sale
Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) has completed the sale of its George Lake project in Nunavut to Kinross Gold (K-T).Wheaton received 4 million Kinross shares in return for its 100% interest in the proje…
Bull run continues in gold stocks
Gold settled into a new, higher trading range of US$278-280 per oz. during the Oct. 31-Nov. 6 trading period, as the U.S. dollar showed some weakness in the face of widespread layoffs and slowing indu…
‘Personal comment’ mars reporting
John Cumming wrote a detailed article on Gabriel Resources feasibility study of the Rosia Montana gold project in Romania (T.N.M., Aug. 20-26/01). His factually correct reporting of the study would ha…
Rosia Montana more than ‘marginal’
Your Aug. 20-26 issue contained two interesting front-page articles — one covering the Gabriel Resources’ feasibility study for the Rosia Montana gold project in Romania, and the other covering Glami…
Analyst compares Gabriel’s go-it-alone and sales options
Senior gold producers are still interested in buying non-producing companies with advanced projects . . . but not at any price, and certainly not without a hard-nosed look at project economics. That’s…
US interest rate cut gives TSE a jolt
Buoyed by another cut in interest rates south of the border, the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index rose 136.31 points over the holiday-shortened week of June 27-July 3 to finish the period at 7,748.32….
Low-cost gold mines: the new survivors
As the gold price rallies, only to sink again, the measure of a good gold project is less and less its production and more and more its operating margin. The need to make money in a small way is winni…