Editorial: Red light, green light
With the global commodities boom marching relentlessly forward, the week ended Dec. 8, the 49th week of 2007, was full of major announcements of mines going forward or else being stopped in their trac…
2007
Jinchuan boosts interest in Continental
Vancouver — Chinese smelting group Jinchuan has boosted its interest in aspiring copper producer Continental Minerals (KMK-V, KMKCF-O) to 14% by exercising 8 million of the junior’s warrants for a to…
Spot Prices Courtesy of Scotiabank Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007
Precious Metals Price (US$/oz.) Change Gold $806.75 +16.50 Silver $14.62 +0.37 Platinum $1462.00 +2.00 Palladium $345.00 -2.00 Base Metals Price (US$/lb.) Change Nickel $11.80 +0.20 Lead $1.10 -0.18 Copper $3.01…
Producer and Dealer Prices (December 17, 2007)
Antimony : Mid-mkt US$5,540/t.
TSX Short Positions (December 17, 2007)
Short positions outstanding at Nov. 30/07 (with changes from Nov. 15/07).
Alexis prepares Lac Pelletier for bulk sample
Alexis Minerals (AMC-T, AXSMF-O) is steering its Lac Pelletier gold project near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., towards a production decision, but first the company is getting the mine and the property ready fo…
People (December 17, 2007)
Bolivar Mining — Michael Ellis appointed to recently created position — chief engineering and mining officer.
Mirabela Nickel’s Santa Rita shines
When Mirabela Nickel’s (MNB-T, MBN-A) Santa Rita hard rock nickel deposit in Brazil starts producing 18,500 tonnes of nickel in concentrate a year beginning in mid-2009, it will be one of the world’s …
Lead surprise for Zincore (December 17, 2007)
Zincore Metals (ZNC-T) has found a little more lead than expected in its Yanque zinc oxide deposit in southern Peru.
TSX Venture Short Positions (December 17, 2007)
Short positions outstanding at Nov. 30/07 (with changes from Nov. 15/07).
North American Stock Exchange Indices (December 17, 2007)
Date Dec. 10 Dec. 7 Dec. 6 Dec. 5 Dec. 4 High Low S&P/TSX-Ven Comp 2751.27 2730.49 2716.37 2692.22 2694.44 3372.00 2348.80 TSX Composite 13940.36 13862.97 13849.80 13734.54 13579.62 14646.82…
Western Troy adds up at Macleod Lake (December 17, 2007)
Thanks to a field season’s drilling, Western Troy Capital Resources (WRY-V, WTCRF-O) has updated the resource estimate at its Macleod Lake molybdenum-copper project in north-central Quebec.