U.S. Markets Jan. 29 -Feb. 4
Dismal economic news continued to spook the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, which trimmed its benchmarkovernight lending rate by another half a percentage point on Jan. 30 to prevent the economy from slip…
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International Quotes (February 11, 2008)
Australia ( A$) Feb 5 Jan 29 Change Bendigo Mining 0.34 0.35 – 0.01 Centamin Egypt 1.45 1.43 0.02 Emperor Mines 0.06 0.07 – 0.01 Kingsgate Cons. 4.27 4.60 – 0.33 …
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McFauld’s West samples promising
Shares of Probe Mines (PRB-V, PROBF-O) shot up 40% in mid-day trading recently on news that the company had found anomalies in nickel, copper, cobalt and silver, as well as anomalous values in gold, a…
Study finds Gladstone Pacific mega-nickel project viable
Gladstone Pacific Nickel’s (GPN-T, GPN-L)vision is to build a nickel-cobalt refinery at the deepwater port of Gladstone, in Queensland, Australia, that would treat high-grade nickel laterite ores from…
De Beers takes US$965-million hit for Snap Lake
Capital cost overruns at De Beers’ Snap Lake diamond mine in the Northwest Territories forced the company to take a…
Roca rallies on Max underground drilling
Vancouver – Underground drilling by Roca Mines (ROK-V, ROCAF-O) at its Max molybdenum mine, located 60 km southeast…
Is coal the new gold? (February 08, 2008)
UBS and Citigroup have raised their price forecasts for thermal and coking coal for the coming two years and it’s n…
Earnings: Cameco, Canaccord, Centerra, Grande Cache Coal
Earnings Summary from CNW Group. www.newswire.ca All figures in thousands except per…
Short Position Report (February 08, 2008)
TSX Short Positions Short positions ou…
Fury completes Taylor silver mine purchase
Vancouver – Fury Explorations (FUR-V, FURXF-O) is inching closer towards a production scenario with the recent clos…
Taking on Nevada one JV at a time
Piedmont Mining (PIED-O) doesn’t want it all. Rather than staking its own claims and investing the time and dol…