Daily Metal Prices (January 17, 2005)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)…
News
States’ rights
The State of Michigan has passed a law regulating mining of non-ferrous metals, one that Governor Jennifer Granholm says will be “the toughest set of mining regulations” in the United States.
Grinding circuit breakthrough
The discovery that ball mill circuit performance is not controlled by a single “efficiency” but rather by two distinct and active efficiencies was first proposed by Robert McIvor in 1987 in his McGill University thesis. Now, validation of his theo…
Exchange Rates (January 17, 2005)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)…
Producer and Dealer Prices (January 17, 2005)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$2,760/t.
Copper is king in British Columbia
Vancouver — Mineral exploration and development in British Columbia have emerged from a bad nightmare caused by weak commodity prices and an unsupportive previous provincial government.
Large resource at Lumina’s Regalito
Vancouver — An independent estimate suggests
Yukon exploration heats up
Whitehorse, Y.T. — In an effort to improve its economy, the Yukon government is rolling out the welcome mat as it tries to lure companies back into exploring and mining in the territory. Buoyed by a resurgence in metal prices on the heels of devo…
The Northern Miner Indices (January 17, 2005)
North American Mining: 107.04 (+0.31)…
Miners recover
United States stock markets drifted marginally lower over the report period Jan. 5-11, with the S&P 500 index down 5.06 points at 1,182.99.
PDAC questions Ontario bill
The Prospectors & Developers Association (PDAC) has made submissions to hearings into Bill 97, which proposes that resource companies intending to extract natural resources from First Nations traditional lands in northern Ontario must negotiate a…
Timber wolf attacks Key Lake worker
It was anything but a happy new year for Fred Desjarlais, an employee of