Resource Stock Roundup:Friday, July 10, 2009
Jul 10th, 2009 | By Doug Casey | Category: Gold MarketCommodity related stocks bounced off their recent lows and that helped the Canadian markets post gains during Thursday’s session. For the tale of the tape: the TSX Exchange rallied 1.25%, while the TSX Gold Index bounced up 0.8% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, added 0.85% with the advancers edging out the decliners by a 386 to 325 margin on a pathetic 108 million shares traded.
Union workers are becoming the star attraction for investors with Kinross Gold’s La Coipa gold mine in Chile on strike. Affected production is stated at 300 ounces of gold per day and the workers are standing by their wage demands. Kinross (NYSE:KGC) ended the session up C$0.05 at C$20.71.
Closer to home, a strike against Vale Inco in Sudbury is all but certain to begin on Monday with the contract expiring for members of United Steelworkers Local 6500. Vale is looking to trim costs from what it calls its highest cost operation and the workers are not fans of the cost cuts.
Uranium One achieved record quarterly attributable production of 833,900 pounds U308 from its Kazakhstan operations the second quarter of 2009. That’s an 18% jump over the first quarter. The company also tabled a new resource for its South Inkai mine. Total indicated resources now tally 34.1 million tonnes grading 0.053% U308 and total inferred resources came in at 42.8 million tonnes grading 0.047% U308, of which a total of 58.8 million pounds of U308 is attributable to Uranium One. The miner ended the day up C$0.18 at C$2.72.
Meanwhile shares of Ivanhoe Mines (NYSE:IVN) added C$0.38 to close at C$9.35 after the company announced that the Mongolia national parliament had voted to advanced approval discussions for the huge Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project.
Shares of Quest Uranium continued to soar on big volumes with no reported news. Rumours are that the company is attracting big player interest thanks to their Strange Lake rare earth project in Quebec. Quest ended the day up C$0.075 at C$0.50.
The summer doldrums have clearly arrived with trading volumes on the junior bourse falling to extremely modest levels. We shall see what Friday trading has in store.
Source: Resource Stock Roundup:Friday, July 10, 2009
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