Tethyan tussle heats up (March 20, 2006)
The board of Aussie takeover target Tethyan Copper (TYCFF-O, TYC-A) is stepping back from earlier advice and urging shareholders to take no action in the face of competing takeover of…
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Aurora looks easy
Metallurgical testing on samples from the Aurora gold project in Guyana has returned positive results for Guyana Goldfields (GUY-T, GUYFF-O)….
Harmony grabs piece of South Deep
Perennial shopper Harmony Gold Mining (HMY-N) has taken a 29.2% stake in fellow South African miner Western Areas (WARSF-O, WARA-J), co-owner of the South Deep underg…
Apex to drill high-grade target at Mansfield’s La Frontera
Vancouver — La Frontera, a gold-silver property discovered and staked by Mansfield Minerals (MDR-V, MFMNF-O) in Argentina’s Catamarca province, has returned high-grade gold and silve…
Editorial: Good times, rolling
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) 74th annual convention, held in Toronto in early March, provided a striking display of both the renewed vitality of Canada’s junior mining…
Gold and the end of dollar hegemony, part III
METALS COMMENTARY…
Toronto Stock Exchange March 7-13
After a slow start, The Toronto Stock Exchange steadily recovered to end the March 7-13 report period 23.34 points higher at 11,906.65. It did so as gold tumbled US$21.75 to US$543.50 by the afternoon…
TSX Venture Exchange March 7-13
A slip in bullion and base metal prices prompted a drop in the lofty S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index, off 54.58 points or 2% to close at 2,588.93 over the March 7-13 session. Average daily trading…
Minefinders to build heap-leach mine at Dolores
Vancouver — Management of Minefinders (MFL-T, MFN-X) plans to spend about US$131.6 million to build an 18,000-tonne-per-day, open-pit heap-leach mine at the Dolores gold-silver prope…
Chariot cuts high-grade copper at Mina Justa (March 20, 2006)
Vancouver — Initial feasibility drilling by Chariot Resources (CHD-T, CHDSF-O) on the Mina Justa deposit at its Marcona copper project, in the coastal region of southwestern Peru, ha…
LME Warehouse Levels (March 20, 2006)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, March 13, 2006 (change from March 6 in brackets):…
Claude improves at Seabee
Vancouver — Rising costs at the Seabee gold mine kept Claude Resources (CRJ-T, CGR-X) in the red to the tune of $3.5 million last year, despite a strong fourth-quarter performance th…