Potash Back In Vogue With BHP’s Bid For Athabasca Potash
BHP Billiton (BHP-N) is offering $341 million to snap up junior explorer Athabasca Potash’s (API-T) assets in Saskatchewan.
Volume 95 Number 51 - Feb 8 - Feb 14, 2010
Stop Buying And Selling Blood Diamonds
Severe human rights violations, including murder, rape and forced labour, have taken place in the diamond fields of Marange, Zimbabwe. Recent reports from Human Rights Watch (HRW) indicate that these …
Toronto Stock Exchange -Jan. 26-Feb. 1
The TSX composite index slid 36.96 points over the Jan. 26-Feb. 1 trading period to close at 11,317.55 points, despite news that Canada’s largest trading partner experienced its fastest growth rate in…
TSX Venture Exchange -Jan. 26-Feb. 1
The TSX Venture Exchange index fell 2.4%, or 36.91 points, over the Jan. 26-Feb. 1 trading period to 1,509.94 points.
U.S. Markets -Jan. 26-Feb. 1
The Jan. 26-Feb. 1 reporting period drew to a close on a bleak note, with U.S. President Barrack Obama forecasting a record US$1.56 trillion budget deficit for fiscal 2010 — or 10.6% of the economy b…
Yukon Territory Wins Big At AME BC Awards Dinner
VANCOUVER — A prospector, a Howe Street financier and several geologists and engineers with historic or recent ties to the Yukon Territory were among the recipients of prestigious awards presented at…
Chinese Mining Investments Sweep The Globe
If anyone had any doubt that a seismic shift of financial power from West to East is underway, they need to look no further than the US$17 billion Chinese companies and sovereign wealth funds pumped i…
Chief Explains Ring Of Fire Protest
First Nation groups eager to be involved in the mining business in northern Ontario are blocking two ice airstrips used by mining companies in the isolated but heavily-staked Ring of Fire camp in the …
Pakistan May Renegotiate Reko Diq Contract
There is new uncertainty surrounding Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) and Antofagasta’s (ANTO-L) Reko Diq copper-gold joint-venture project in Pakistan’s resource-rich but unruly southwest Balochistan pr…
Suppliers News (February 08, 2010)
SUPPLIERS NEWS
Technical Analysis Report: Where Is Gold Going?
After enjoying a spectacular upward ride for most of 2009, commodity markets have taken a downturn since mid-January.
MDN Flexes Its Rare Metal Muscles
While its name has been tied to gold until now, MDN( MDN-T) is in the midst of diversifying into some slightly less well-known metals.