Volume 96 Number 5 - Mar 22 - 28, 2010


PEOPLE (March 22, 2010)

Alcoa — Marcos Ramos appointed president of Alcoa Europe and will continue as president of Global Primary Products Europe; Rudi Huber has retired as president of Alcoa Europe.


Correction (March 22, 2010)

The photo accompanying our Manitoba round up in our Exploration & Development Highlights section (T. N.M., March 8-14/10) was incorrectly identified as HudBay Minerals’ (HBM-T) 777 copper-zinc min…


TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE MARCH 9 – 15

The TSX composite index finished the March 9-15 period 12 points higher at 12,051. The strength of the index coincides with global investors increasingly heralding the Canadian economy for its perceiv…


TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE MARCH 9-15

A week of small gains and losses left the S&P/TSX Venture composite index essentially unchanged at the end of the March 9-15 trading period, closing down 0.42 point at 1561.51. Daily trading volum…


U.S. MARKETS MARCH 9-15

U.S. equity markets were fairly ho-hum in the March 9-15 reporting period with the Dow Jones industrial average inching up just 0.74% or 77.77 points to finish at 10,642.15 and the S&P 500 index g…



From left: PDAC president Jon Baird with Bill Mercer, VP of exploration for Avalon Rare Metals and Don Bubar, Avalon's president and CEO. Avalon received the Environmental and Social Responsibility award.

PDAC awards night

On March 8, people from around the mining industry gathered at the Fairmont Royal York hotel in Toronto to celebrate this year’s winners of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada annual …


Apollo, Linear merging to form mid-tier gold miner

VANCOUVER — Apollo Gold (APG-T, AGT-X) and Linear Gold (LRR-T) are set to merge into a company with an active gold mine in Ontario, an advanced gold project in Saskatchewan, and a solid cash balance.


TD’s Drummond paints bearish scenario for gold

Maybe it wasn’t what people came to hear — the event’s sponsors after all were gold heavyweights Newmont Mining (NMC-T, NEM-N) and Franco- Nevada (FNV-T), and this was a luncheon at the Prospectors a…


Lundin jumps on Tenke Fungurume news

VANCOUVER — News that a resolution to the contract review is near for the Tenke Fungurume copper mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) lifted part-owner Lundin Mining’s (LUN-T) share pri…



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