Exploration budgets reach US$5.1B
According to Halifax-based Metals Economics Group’s recent edition of Corporate Exploration Strategies, this year’s analysis of the exploration budgets of 1,431 companies (using a US$100,000 cutoff) t…
2005
Barrick settles lawsuits, wins apology (November 28, 2005)
New Orleans-based coin and bullion dealer Blanchard & Co., has settled its lawsuits and apologized to
Exchange Rates (November 28, 2005)
CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)…
TSX basks in golden glow
After some earlier profit-taking, Toronto stocks resumed their ascent to end the Nov. 15-21 report period 132.62 points better at 10,817.34. The country’s gold miners enjoyed a boost as the yellow met…
Metals surge drives Venture board momentum
The junior-dominated S&P-TSX Venture Exchange regained some signs of life over the Nov. 15-21 trading session, with the combination of spot gold prices closing in on an 18-year high of US$500 per…
People (November 28, 2005)
Copper giant branching out into nickel
Miners get a bounce
Resource stocks bounced back on U.S. markets after last week’s “mini-correction” aimed mostly at coal and energy companies. Strong gold prices drove the rally over the report period Nov. 15-21, with b…
Kodiak plans winter program
Winter’s imminent arrival in Canada’s Northwest Territories has
TSX Rights & Warrants (November 28, 2005)
Arafura’s uranium byproduct play
Perth, Australia —