The success of Failes
By 1932, Emile Dagenais had been prospecting for 10 years and although he had covered a good part of Canada, he hadn’t worked much in the vicinity of the Arctic Circle. That changed when he was asked…
2006
People (June 19, 2006)
St Andrew Goldfields — Ben Au appointed VP of finance and CFO….
LME Warehouse Levels (June 19, 2006)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, June 12, 2006 (change from June 5 in brackets):…
Toronto Stock Exchange June 6-12
Concerns over continued interest rate hikes south of the border pushed the TSX Composite Index down another 4.3% to 11,197.58 during the June 6-12 report period. Metals of all varieties took on a red…
U.S. Markets June 6-12
Equity markets in the United States went into a tailspin during the reporting period June 6-12, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 256.14 points to 10,792.58, and the Standard & Poor’s…
TSX Venture Exchange June 6-12
Weakening metal prices gave the junior mining-dominated S&P-TSX Venture Composite Index a 281.2-point haircut over the June 6-12 trading session, closing down 10% at 2,549.03. Average daily tradin…
Problems at Marlin, Marigold
Glamis Gold (GLG-T, GLG-N) took a downward slide last week as falling gold prices and cuts in production conspired to weigh down the Reno, Nev.-based company’s shares….
African juniors to descend on Jo-burg
The African Junior Mining Congress, an event designed for mineral sector managers looking to expand and develop projects in Africa, is slated for July 4-6, 2006, at the Gallagher Estate, Johannesburg,…
El Nino options Bathurst projects from Falconbridge
Vancouver — El Nino Ventures (ELN-V, ELNOF-O) is blowing into New Brunswick’s Bathurst base metal camp by optioning a large land package from area producer Falconbridge (FAL-T, FAL-N)….
New Gold hits deeper mineralization at Afton (June 19, 2006)
Vancouver — Underground drilling by New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-X) on its New Afton copper-gold deposit, just west of Kamloops, B.C., has turned up a new area of mineralization below the current resource sh…
Young-Shannon cuts McMillan high-grade (June 19, 2006)
Vancouver — Drilling by Young-Shannon Gold Mines (GYS-V, YOSGF-O) on its McMillan gold mine project, near Espanola in northern Ontario, has delivered significant results from a high-grade mineralized…
Online chemical courses in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology is taking the “room” out of classroom with four online chemical technology courses that stress safety and accuracy in laboratory analysis….