Editorial: Political power play over PotashCorp
BHP Billiton’s $40-billion hostile bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan entered a critical period in late Octo…
2010
SouthGobi expands footprint in Mongolia with strategic investment
SouthGobi Resources (SGQ-T, 1878-SEHK) hopes to replicate its own success story through a strategic investment…
Creston Moly boosts El Creston resource
Vancouver – Creston Moly (CMS-V) has significantly increased the total molybdenum and copper resource at …
Environmental approval lifts Mega Uranium
A key environmental approval from the once fickle Australian government has given Mega Uranium (MGA-T) a boost…
Hunter Dickinson’s Northcliff options N.B. tungsten-moly play
With an eye on a rising tungsten price, the Hunter Dickinson group has picked up an option on Geodex Minerals’…
Avion Gold is off to a good start in Burkina Faso
Avion Gold (AVR-V, AVGCF-O) has completed an initial resource estimate for the Vindaloo zone of its recently a…
Extorre brings focus to Cerro Moro
Vancouver – For years the gold-silver Cerro Moro project in Argentina’s Santa Cruz province played second-fidd…
Venture continues upward with heavy volumes
A dipping gold price helped lead to a mixed week for the S&P-TSX Venture composite index, but three days o…
TSX holds ground for Oct. 18-22 period
With the Bank of Canada holding rates at 1% the TSX Composite managed to hold on to much of its recent gains f…
U.S. Markets edge upward
Leading up to the G-20 weekend meeting of finance ministers, U.S. stocks ended higher for the third straight w…
SPOT PRICES (October 25, 2010)
COURTESY OF SCOTIABANK
LME WAREHOUSE LEVELS (October 25, 2010)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Oct. 18, 2010 (change from Oct. 11 in brackets):