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2006
Editorial: Aussie PM warming to nuke power (August 14, 2006)
There’s nothing quite like the whiff of big money to make people abandon their longest-held principles….
Toronto Stock Exchange august 1-4
The market made marginal gains over the holiday-shortened Aug. 1-4 period, with the S&P-TSX Composite Index up 105.72 points to 11,936.68 as a slight rise in unemployment made further increases in…
TSX Venture Exchange august 1-4
On the back of steady precious and base metal prices, the S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index chiselled out a modest gain of 32.85 points to close at 2,646.62 over the midsummer holiday-shortened Aug….
Acadian looks at Scotia startup
Acadian Gold (ADA-V, ADGLF-O) is hoping to move to early production at the Scotia Zinc project near Gays River, N.S., after receiving results of a recent feasibility study….
New World drills wide intercept at Lipea (August 14, 2006)
Vancouver — Initial drilling by New World Resource (NW-V, NWFFF-O) on its Lipea project in southwestern Bolivia has returned a wide intercept of copper, gold and silver mineralization….
The Uzbek taxman cometh (August 14, 2006)
The government of Uzbekistan has seized some gold and banned further shipments of the yellow metal from Newmont Mining’s (NMC-T, NEM-N) 50%-owned Zarafshan heap-leach operation in the Kyzylkum desert,…
High River takes on Russian silver project (August 14, 2006)
The Russian subsidiary of High River Gold (HRG-T), Buryatzoloto, has lined up an agreement with private Russian company Gazteck Industry that will give Buryatzoloto a 50% interest in an undeveloped si…
TSX Short Positions (August 14, 2006)
Short positions outstanding at July 31, 2006 (with changes from July 15)….
Exmin, Hochschilds not finicky about Moris
Vancouver-based junior Exmin Resources (EXM-V, EXMFF-O) has teamed up with Peru’s Hochschild Mining Group to buy the closed Santa Maria de Moris heap-leach gold-silver mine located in the Moris distri…
Teck snaps Inco’s olive branch (August 14, 2006)
Teck Cominco (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) has politely declined Inco’s (N-T, N-N) invitation to the negotiating table, instead preferring to stick to its game plan and existing cash-and-share takeover bid for the…
U.S. Markets august 1-7
Trading on U.S stock markets was flat over the report period Aug. 1-Aug. 7, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index up barely a point to close at 1,275.77. Three penny juniors were the most active tr…