Producer and Dealer Prices (October 23, 2006)
Antimony : Mid-mkt US$5,240/t.
2006
LME Warehouse Levels (October 23, 2006)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Oct. 16, 2006 (change from Oct. 9 in brackets):
Lending Rates (October 23, 2006)
as of 4 pm ET, Oct. 16, 2006 (%) Bank of Canada 4.50 Target overnight rate 4.25 Canadian Prime 6.00 U.S. Discount Primary 6.25 U.S. Fed Funds market rate 5.24…
Inco saves best for last
Tabling its final quarterly report before its takeover by Brazil’s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO-N), Inco (N-T, N…
Westchester Resouces wants back into the mineral sector
Westchester Resources (WSR-T) is getting in on Guyana Goldfields’ (GUY-T) Peters Mine property in Guyana and the n…
Zinc recycling in the North (October 20, 2006)
Doubtless helped by the price of zinc, two former Arctic zinc producers, both operated by Cominco, are getting …
Shareholders approve EuroZinc/Lundin merger
Vancouver – Shareholders of Lundin Mining (LUN-T) and EuroZinc Mining (EZM-T, EZM-X) voted in favor of a merger pr…
Aquiline, IMA finalize Navidad transfer
In response to the July judgment of British Columbia’s Supreme Court that stripped the Navidad silver project in Ar…
Apogee intersects silver in tumultuous Bolivia
While political uncertainty still swirls around the mining industry in Bolivia, Apogee Minerals (APE-V) had good ne…
Rio Tinto coming to Oyu Tolgoi
Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T) wowed the market by laying the groundwork for a partnership with Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) in …
Pirquitas to go into production (October 18, 2006)
Silver Standard Resources (SSO-V, SSRI-Q) will go ahead with construction of a mine at its Pirquitas silver project…
Colombia attracts mining’s heavy hitters
Marmato, Colombia — Efforts by Colombian authorities to attract international mining investment are bearing fruit …