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Mining / Perspectives

"There have been substantial violations of the Canada-Venezuela bilateral investment treaty"

Douglas Belanger

President
Gold Reserve


After years of disputes with the Venezuelan government while attempting to develop the Brisas deposit in the country without success, Spokane-based Gold Reserve has finally made good on its many threats to take the case to an international court. On October 21 the company filed a request for arbitration with the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on grounds the government has violated the Canada-Venezuela treaty on bilateral investment by not gra

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"Everyone is much more optimistic, not like they were six months ago or a year ago"


Greg Ferron

Senior manager, global mining
TMX Group

October 30, 2009

stock markets crashed in late 2008, they managed to bring all the metals down with them and send those who would invest in junior miners and explorers running for cover. The companies were left with battered share prices and little or no chances of raising more No permission

"The project is going to be very big and we'll have to resort to foreign financing"


Martín Sutti

CEO
Piero Sutti

October 23, 2009

recent announcement by Mexican company Piero Sutti that it has discovered a substantial lithium deposit in the state of Zacatecas could mean Mexico will become one of the world's top lithium producers. The announcement was made precisely as the Boli more No permission

Weekly Wrap|Perspectives

Published: Friday, November 06, 2009

This week most of the world's main gold producers reported third quarter results, which despite the robust performance of the metal's price in the recent year were not entirely positive. In some cases producers absorbed losses or lower profits even after having increased production.

Goldcorp reported a drop in third quarter net earnings to US$114mn from US$297mn despite an 11% year-on-year rise in output to 621,100oz at a cash cost of US$295/oz.

Due to the higher output, Goldcorp revised up its guidance for this year to 2.4Moz gold at a cash cost of US$300/oz compared to 2.3Moz previously.

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Coming Up

  • November  09, 2009

    Minefinders to release Q3 results before the market opens and will hold a conference call the following day to discuss the results. - Mexico

  • November  09, 2009

    Quadra Mining to release Q3 results before market opens and hold a conference call the same day. - Chile

  • November  09-11, 2009

    Mining service provider Groundprobe will hold the 2009 Rock Slope Stability Symposium in Santiago, Chile on 9-11 November at the University of Los Andes. - Chile

  • November  10, 2009

    Pan American Silver to release third quarter results after market closes. A conference call and live audio webcast to discuss the results will be held the next day. - Argentina, Peru

  • November  12, 2009

    Infinito Gold's hearing in a Costa Rican constitutional court to review Crucitas project. - Chile