Baja Mining’s Boleo worth the wait
John Greenslade is probably one of the most tenacious – and brilliant – chief executives in the junior mining world.
Volume 97 Number 22 Jul 18 - 24, 2011
Positive results for First Point’s Decar
Concept is slowly becoming reality at First Point Minerals’ (FPX-V) unusual nickel project in central B.C., with encouraging metallurgical results giving the company its latest boost.
Letter to the editor: How big can Cote Lake get? Depends how you stretch it!
In the cover story of The Northern Miner’s June 27-July 3, 2011 issue, staff writer Anthony Vaccaro describes Trelawney Mining and Exploration’s activity on its newly discovered Côté Lake gold deposit in the southwestern Abitibi…
Market news
Toronto Stock Exchange
Spot prices
Tuesday, July 11, 2011
LME warehouse levels
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, July 11, 2011 (change from July 4 in brackets):
Kinross leads majors for investments in junior gold plays
After betting US$7.1 billion last year on the expansion potential of Red Back Mining’s Tasiast gold mine in Mauritania, Kinross Gold’s (K-T, KGC-N) chief executive Tye Burt has said his company’s buying spree has come to an end for a…
Lending rates
as of 9 a.m. ET. Aug. 23, 2010(%)
Stillwater to buy Peregrine Metals
Peregrine Metals (PGM-T) saw its shares surge more than 250%, after U.S. platinum miner Stillwater Mining (SWC-N) agreed to pay US$487.1 million for the junior and its large undeveloped copper-gold project in Argentina.
Aldershot beefs up uranium stable in U.S.
Philip Crabb says he “isn’t fazed by the current opinion of uranium,” and would, if asked, probably urge critics of the nuclear industry to take a trip to China if they needed any convincing that nuclear energy is the way to go.
Producer and dealer prices
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$13,500.00/t
Editorial: Bernanke helps gold hit new highs
The eroding foundations of the global economic system dominated much of the world’s business news in the first week of July.