Vancouver – A shortened week filled with fluctuating oil prices and mid-east unrest saw the S&P TSX Venture Exchange drop 48.06 points between Feb. 22 and 25 to close at 2,375.62 as two days of losses outweighed two days of gains.
Vancouver – February was a busy month for Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-T, NAK-X) and Anglo American (AAL-L) at their gigantic Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in southwest Alaska, said by many to be one of the largest undeveloped…
A hostile bid by Equinox Minerals (EQN-T, EQN-A) for Lundin Mining worth about $4.8 billion in cash and shares could derail a friendly merger proposed between Lundin and Inmet Mining (IMN-T, IEMF-O) that is scheduled for a shareholder vote on…
U.S. equities posted their worst performance since November on worries related to the Libyan uprising. Spreading unrest across North Africa and the Middle East drove oil to 2-1/2 year highs and prompted accelerated safe-haven buying. When…
The Toronto Stock Exchange was closed for the Family Day holiday on Monday Feb. 21. When trading resumed, the TSX composite index dropped 70.98 points or 0.50% to finish the abbreviated trading week at 14,052.13, while the S&P/TSX Capped…
Lithium has grabbed much of the headlines over the last few years when the subject of key metals of the future comes up. But more and more investors are paying attention to vanadium for the metal’s unique attribute of fitting in with two future…
Entrée Gold (etg-t, egi-x) is “strongly undervalued” given the potential that exists for it to sell its Mongolian assets to Ivanhoe Mines (ivn-t, ivn-n) or Rio Tinto (rio-n, rio-l), Christopher Ecclestone of Hallgarten & Co. argues…
Cape Town, South Africa – The mood at the 2011 Mining Indaba conference in South Africa was markedly upbeat as the industry experiences booming growth, but the host nation was left wondering how it had missed out.
Analysts Stephen Walker and Richard Bishop of RBC Capital Markets estimate that when Trelawney Mining and Exploration (trr-v) releases its initial resource estimate in the first or second quarter of this year, the junior gold explorer will have…
The World Gold Council has released the following summary of factors that drove gold demand in 2010, and expectations for 2011. The full Gold Demand Trends report for 2010 can be found at www.gold.org.
The following is an excerpt from Ernst & Young’s annual mining and metals transactions report, Ungeared for Growth. For the full report visit: www.ey.com.
Regarding the article “African Copperbelt: still risky after all these years” (T.N.M., Feb. 7-13/11), the problems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have not yet begun.
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