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Toromont Industries (an Ontario Caterpillar dealer) has won a contract to supply up to 36 350-ton class Caterpillar 795F haulage trucks for Detour Gold’s (DGC-T) Detour Lake gold project in northeaste…

Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) will invest $16 million to install driver monitoring systems in its fleet of vehicles worldwide. The technology was developed by Utah-based inthinc Technology Solutions, wh…

PEOPLE Blackstone Ventures — Stuart Angus, Kelvin Dushnisky and Michael Knuckey resigned as directors; Don Njegovan appointed a director. Camino Minerals — Francois Gaboury appointed chief geologist. CB Gold —…

The TSX composite index was up a modest 14 points to finish the Sept 20-24 period at 12,204.86. The big story was the Canadian dollar’s failure to rise despite a weakening U.S. greenback. While most m…

The S&P-TSX Venture composite index enjoyed another strong week between Sept. 20 and 24, closing at 1,699.55, an advance of 37.59 points or 2.3%. Over the period, 108 Venture-listed companies reac…

Economic uncertainty along with worries about European debt levels, coupled with comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it was prepared to take action to help the recovery and lift inflation and …

COURTESY OF SCOTIABANK

Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Sept. 27, 2010 (change from Sept. 20 in brackets):

Antimony: Mid-mkt US$9,900.00/t.

Daily Metal Prices Date Sept. 27 Sept. 24 Sept. 23 Sept. 22 Sept. 21 BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange –Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne) Al Alloy 2240/2200 2205/2165 2200/21…

CANADIAN GOLD MUTUAL FUNDS Fund name Sept. 27 Sept. 20 Change Change YTD MER* Assets* ($) ($) ($) (%) (%) (%) (M$) AGF Pr Mtl 38.76 36.80 1.96 5.3 31.08 2.56 614.8 Altamira Pr & …

52-week Date Sept. 27 Sept. 24 Sept. 23 Sept. 22 Sept. 21 High Low S&P/TSX-Ven Comp 1694.63 1699.55 1688.03 1688.70 1680.77 1707.62 1231.25 TSX Composite 12190.60 12204.86 12101.79 12147.26 12170.57…