Resource Stock Roundup Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Jun 4th, 2008 | By Doug Casey | Category: Gold MarketIt was selloff across the board for the Canadian Markets during Tuesday trading as investors grew skittish on the future of commodity prices.
For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange lost 0.58%, while the TSX Gold Index gave back 1.6% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, fell 0.44% with the declining issuers swamping the advancers by a 562 to 466 margin on volume of nearly 218 million shares traded.
Silver Wheaton stepped up to the plate and has agreed to buy 50% of the life of mine silver at Aurcana’s 80% owned La Negra mine in Mexico. The price tag is an upfront cash payment of $25 million. Aurcana ended the day up C$0.06 at C$0.64.
It was a good session for shareholders of X-Terra Resources as the junior applied for shale licenses in Quebec. The junior received a letter from the Ministry of Natural Resources to confirm the application permits for over 120,000 hectares. X-Terra ended the day up C$0.73 at C$2.21.
Shares of Buchans River added C$0.04 to close at C$0.225 after the company announced a drill intercept of 6.64% zinc, 3.01% lead, 0.65% copper, 15.06 grams silver and 0.11 grams gold per tonne on the Lundberg zone in Newfoundland.
Radius Gold has inked a deal with Kappes, Cassiday & Associates to develop the high-grade Tambor gold deposit in Guatemala. The agreement envisions an initial 150 tonne per day operation from both underground and surface pits. Kappes can earn a 51% interest in the project by spending $6.5 million over four years or by putting the project into production. Radius ended the day up C$0.05 at C$0.32.
Newmont Mining put itself on the brink of bidding for Gabriel Resources after buying an additional 1.5% equity stake in the company on the open market. That gives Newmont 19.9%, just a tad less than the 20% threshold that would trigger a mandatory offer. Gabriel ended the day down C$0.04 at C$2.86.
Gold took one on the chin as it made a run at the $900 per ounce mark but failed to break through. We will see what Wednesday trading has in store.
Source: Resource Stock Roundup Wednesday, June 4, 2008
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