Thursday July 1 is Canada Day. We all look forward to a day off, firing up the barbecue and getting too much sun. This year Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will be in Ottawa, taking celebrations to a special level.
Our question this week for our readers is What did you do on Canada Day and the long weekend?
Please vote by going to the CMJ home page, www.CanadianMiningJournal.com, and finding the Hot Topic Opinions question on the left hand side of the page.
Last week we asked readers to select from a list of metals which one they believed had the greatest price increase in the first half of this year.
Our readers voted 16% for copper, 24% for gold, 12% for platinum and 20% for palladium. Good guesses all, but the metal with a 131.2% gain in price was ruthenium. Only one reader voted for ruthenium.
I use as my reference the weekly newsletter from www.MineralPrices.com. Until recently, the service has been reliable. But for the last two weeks the newsletter has listed copper as having close to a seven-fold increase, last trading at 2,640 US cents/lb. That has to be a misplaced decimal point. Certainly it should be US$2.64/lb. Other than this glitch, I recommend signing up for this free weekly subscription.
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