Residents of Oklahoma town sue over historic pollution
Kaylee Jernigan and her mother Kim live less than half a mile from the site of a smelter that refined zinc and cadmium ore concentrates for 58 years before it was closed down in 1974.
2008
Appointment
Mr. Stephen Rogers
Houston Lake takes steady path towards production
Houston Lake Mining’s (HLM-V, HLKMF-O) president and chief executive Grayme Anthony knows what it is to persevere.
Apollo Gold shoots arrow through adversity
Building a mining company is seldom an easy road to venture down, without hardships and bumps along the way. But in Apollo Gold’s (APG-T, AGT-X)case, the road nearly came to a dead end in 2005, when a…
CANADIAN GOLD MUTUAL FUNDS (April 28, 2008)
Featured Fund: AGF Precious Metals, as of 01/31/08 (in weighted order): Kinross Gold, Goldcorp, Yamana Gold, Inmet Mining, Iamgold, Central Fund of Canada, Agnico-Eagle Mines, High River Gold Mines, F…
Feasibility study for Ashdown moly mine
Although molybdenum production is already under way at the Ashdown mine near Denio, Nev., 60-40 joint-venture partners Golden Phoenix Minerals (GPXM-O) and Win-Eldrich Mines (WEX-V, WIDMF-O) have rele…
Private Thai group to buy Pan African Mining (April 28, 2008)
Hungry for new coal properties outside Southeast Asia, Asia Thai Mining is buying Pan African Mining( PAF-V, PAFRF-O)at an 84.3% premium over the Vancouverbased junior’s 20-day average trading price.
Partners rev up exploration efforts at Matheson JV
It’s no coincidence that Matamec Explorations’ (MAT-V, MTCEF-O) new Matheson joint venture, in the Timmins gold camp, is next to Goldcorp’s (G-T, GG-N) Hoyle Pond gold mine property, says the company’…
LME WAREHOUSE LEVELS (April 28, 2008)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, April 22, 2008 (change from April 15 in brackets):
Champion expands iron property in Labrador
Champion Minerals (CHM-V) is buying up yet more land next door to its wholly owned Attikamagen Lake iron property in Labrador.
SPOT PRICES (April 28, 2008)
COURTESY OF SCOTIABANK
PRODUCER AND DEALER PRICES (April 28, 2008)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$5,950/t.