Vancouver — Gold issues helped Canada’s junior exchange break the 1,000 mark on the S&P composite index over the week ended Dec. 17. The Venture Exchange index rocketed 35.56 points, or 3.68% of its …
U.S. markets moved sideways over the reporting period Dec. 11-17, but the mining stocks, particularly the golds, ran up substantially. The Dow, which fell 38.87 points to 8,535.39, was down slightly, …
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T21.9%FalconbridgeFL-T4.2%Freeport BFCX.B-N5.0%GoldcorpG-T5.2%IncoN-T7.7%Meridian GoldMNG-T4.7%Newmont MiningNEM-N24.8%Noranda…
The biggest deal of the report period was WMC Resources’ US$87.5-million acquisition from South Africa’s Southern Mining of the world’s largest undeveloped titanium mineral-sands deposit: Corridor San…
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest mining company, announced that its 2003 copper production target for the world’s largest copper mine, Escondida in Chile, is being set at 1.05 million tonnes, while a…
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T21.9%FalconbridgeFL-T4.2%Freeport BFCX.B-N5.0%GoldcorpG-T5.2%IncoN-T7.7%Meridian GoldMNG-T4.7%Newmont MiningNEM-N24.8%Noranda…
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T21.9%FalconbridgeFL-T4.2%Freeport BFCX.B-N5.0%GoldcorpG-T5.2%IncoN-T7.7%Meridian GoldMNG-T4.7%Newmont MiningNEM-N24.8%Noranda…
The biggest news of the period under review was Noril’sk Nickel’s move to acquire a majority interest in troubled U.S. palladium-platinum producer Stillwater Mining for a combination of cash and physi…
Vancouver — Branching out from its base metal roots, Atna Resources (ATN-T) has agreed to acquire several prospective gold mining claims in Nevada’s prolific Carlin trend.Among these are the Triple J…
The biggest story over the period was the revelation that Phelps Dodge and Cabot are being jointly investigated by American and European antitrust authorities for alleged price-fixing in the carbon bl…
NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeightBarrickABX-T21.9%FalconbridgeFL-T4.2%Freeport BFCX.B-N5.0%GoldcorpG-T5.2%IncoN-T7.7%Meridian GoldMNG-T4.7%Newmont MiningNEM-N24.8%Noranda…
Two of the three mid-tier gold producers planning a friendly merger made money in the third quarter of 2002, but the biggest, Kinross Gold (K-T), is still in the red.Echo Bay Mines (ECO-T) made US$3.7…
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