This article is the first of two instalments devoted to base metals and was culled from Barclays Capital’s monthly commodities report The Commodity Refiner. Part 2 will appear in our Oct 21-27 issue.B…
The European Commission has proposed fighting the trade in “conflict diamonds” by means of a strict control system.The new regulations target any company caught handling diamonds that fail to meet the…
About 4,000 miners have burned buildings and marched on government offices in northern Zambia to protest lost wages.Some of the miners have not been paid in six months, and others, who had been laid o…
ExchgVol(000s)HighLowCloseChangeKinross GoldT193443.282.682.77-0.37…
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeNickel$ 2.95-$0.11Lead$ 0.19 0.00Copper$ 0.65-$0.01…
65.64 (-5.14)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)DateOct. 8Oct. 7Oct. 4Oct. 3Oct. 2US$ in C$1.59291.59201.59421.5902…
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Oct. 8 (change from Oct. 1 in brackets):MetalStock (tonnes)ChangeAluminium1282950(-71…
68.52 (-3.94)(Sept. 30/98 = 100)…
Dow 36,000 receded further into the distance over the report period Oct. 1-8, with the bellwether U.S. stock index plunging 437.30 points to finish at 7,501.49. But the gold stocks, which have been fe…
Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T) and Soquem have wrapped-up a summer field season in the Otish Mountains region of north-central Quebec with the discovery of an eighth kimberlitic body.Renard 8 was fou…
Vancouver — The Bushveld igneous complex in South Africa has long been known to host high-grade platinum group metal (PGM) deposits, but in recent years the discovery of large, lower-grade prospects …
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