VANCOUVER — The S&P TSX Venture Composite gained 10.47 points or 0.78% before closing at 1,344.98 points during the Oct. 1-5 trading sessions, as mixed signals from major global economies continued to limit growth.
Employment figures showing the U.S. economy added 114,000 jobs in the month of September, pushing down the unemployment rate from 8.1% to 7.8% —the lowest level since January 2009 — buoyed equities. The Dow Jones Industrial Average…
The S&P/TSX Composite Index gained 0.8% or 101.53 points during the Oct.1-5 trading week to end at 12,418.88.
Shares of Continental Gold (CNL-T) surged $1.09, or 12%, to $9.90 apiece, with more than 6 million shares changing hands on news of an updated resource estimate for the company’s Buritica project in Antioquia, Colombia.
While a feasibility study for Sulliden Gold’s (SUE-T) Shahuindo project in northern Peru envisions a somewhat smaller and slightly more expensive gold operation than previously thought, the project’s economics are…
When Steven Dean stepped down in 2002 as president of Teck Cominco, now Teck Resources (TCK-T, TCK-N), his motivation was simple: he wanted to spend more time with his family after spending years on the road, a fact of life in the…
Unto everything there is a season; a time to hustle and sell off your vast, frozen iron ore assets in remote parts of the country to foreigners from the tropics, and a time to throttle back production at actual iron ore mines in Canada’s…
In the late 1980s, veteran northern Saskatchewan bush pilot Bill MacNeill turned resource developer.
There won’t be enough copper to meet Chinese demand by the middle of the next decade, Adrian Day, president of Adrian Asset Management in London, told a group of investors at the Cambridge House conference in Toronto.
Nearly two years after its initial environmental assessment was rejected, Vancouver-based Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) is stepping up to the plate for a second attempt at permitting its US$1.1-billion New Prosperity copper-gold project, 120 km…
Afferro Mining — Ousmane Kane appointed a director.
Recent media reports have suggested Stornoway Diamonds’ (SWY-T) Renard diamond project in Quebec may face delays given that construction of the Route 167 extension from Chibougamau to the Otish Mountains is slightly behind plan, but the…
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