Gold Fields Limited

U.S. markets moved sideways over the reporting period Dec. 11-17, but the mining stocks, particularly the golds, ran up substantially. The Dow, which fell 38.87 points to 8,535.39, was down slightly, …

ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeNewmont Mng*N57136826.9224.3326.14+1.81…

The biggest deal of the report period was WMC Resources’ US$87.5-million acquisition from South Africa’s Southern Mining of the world’s largest undeveloped titanium mineral-sands deposit: Corridor San…

ExchgVol(000s)HighLowCloseChangeKinross GoldT313453.082.822.88+0.12…

BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company, announced that its 2003 copper production target for the world’s largest copper mine, Escondida in Chile, is being set at 1.05 million tonnes, while a…

The biggest news of the period under review was Noril’sk Nickel’s move to acquire a majority interest in troubled U.S. palladium-platinum producer Stillwater Mining for a combination of cash and physi…

ExchgVol(000s)HighLowCloseChangeAsia Pac Res*Q243120.060.040.050.00…

ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeAlcoa*N41454225.1622.2824.50+1.96…

The biggest story over the period was the revelation that Phelps Dodge and Cabot are being jointly investigated by American and European antitrust authorities for alleged price-fixing in the carbon bl…

ExchgVol (000s)HighLowCloseChangeKinross GoldT273813.082.722.73-0.35…

ExchgVal($000s)HighLowCloseChangeNewmont Mng*N30334525.2023.5123.66-0.62…

The gold bugs watched in glee as their arch nemesis, JP Morgan, the counterparty to most gold-derivatives trading, issued a statement that refuted rumours it had recently lost upwards of US$17 billlio…