Volume 96 Number 12 - May 10 - 16, 2010

Timmins Gold starts up San Francisco mine

Timmins Gold (TMM-V) has started commercial production at the San Francisco gold mine, a past-producing open-pit heap-leach operation in the Arizona-Sonora Desert in the northern portion of the Mexica…


PEOPLE (May 10, 2010)

Alcoa– Klaus Kleinfeld appointed chairman and CEO replacing Alain Belda, who retired; Judith Gueron appointed lead director; Arthur Collins elected a director; Jim Owens named chairman of the audit c…


Volta Resources pulls golden core from Kiaka

VANCOUVER — A drill program aimed at defining a maiden resource at the Kiaka project in Burkina Faso continues to produce near-surface lengths of gold mineralization for Volta Resources (VTR-T).


Tax news wallops Aussie miners

Australia arguably slipped from being a pro-mining country to an anti-mining one in early May, as the left-leaning federal government there unveiled sweeping plans to change the island nation into one…


Taking stock of Quebec’s new mining taxes

The Quebec Finance Minister Raymond Bachand’s budget on March 30, 2010, significantly revamped the Quebec mining duty regime with a view to mitigating the provincial deficit.





DAILY METAL PRICES (May 10, 2010)

Date May 3 Apr. 30 Apr. 29 Apr. 28 Apr. 27 BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne) Al Alloy Holiday 2026/2060 2010/2050 1925/1960 2100/2140 …





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