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...The Silver Valley in the Coeur d’Alene Mountains of northern Idaho was one of the most prolific silver regions in the world, yielding more than 1.2bn ounces of the metal since mining started in the 1880s...
...But the idea of a book town, or at least a book district, is much older....
...The ghosts of the great and the echoes of near-forgotten dialogues resound in the dining room of La Closerie des Lilas, a famed restaurant in Paris’s Montparnasse district....
...Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Santa Maria Formosa, 5252, 30122 Castello (+39041-271 1411; www.querinistampalia.org)....
...On the train, I read about the raison d’être for Sacré-Cœur. It all started in 1870....
...Marseille’s oldest quarter, Le Panier, once the biggest red-light district in the Mediterranean, rises up behind the new museums....
...“What we’d like to see is a house that reflects the people who live in it, their idiosyncrasies as well as their passions....
...Other investors in the Bolivian mining sector include the North American groups Pan American Silver, Coeur d’Alene Mines and New World Resources as well as China National Gold Group....
...What: A 16-bedroom A-listed castle dating from 1346 in landscaped grounds, with 670 acres (271 hectares), including 300 acres of woodland....
...Through the archway off Place de la Patte d’Oie, with its plaque to a fallen resistance hero, and past the Sacré Coeur churchyard, there are older homes with gardens and palm trees....
...Dennis Wheeler, chief executive of Coeur d’Alene Mines, told the Denver Gold Forum on Monday that precious metals could be heading for a “perfect storm” that would boost prices....
...International miners in Bolivia include Glencore International of Switzerland, Coeur d’Alene and Apex Silver of the US, and Pan American Silver of Canada....
...Freeport McMoran rose4.7 per cent to $57.15, and Coeur d’Alene gained 4.9 per cent to $5.37. Technology stocks were down across the board . Amazon sank 3.4 per cent to $28.13....
...The council is expected to announce that Agnico-Eagle Mines, Cambior, Coeur D’Alene Mines, Eldorado Gold Corp, Goldcorp, IAM Gold and Kinross are becoming members....
...Evo Morales, Bolivia’s leftwing president, has vowed to nationalise the country’s mining industry, overruling senior members of his cabinet in a move that could affect foreign investors such as Coeur d’Alene...
...This was in spite of news that the Bolivian government had assured miner Coeur D’Alene that it would not nationalise its San Bartolome mine, expected to produce 8m ounces of silver annually from 2007....
...Coeur D’Alene, the world’s largest listed silver mining company, with about 30 per cent of its assets in Bolivia, has also felt pressure....
...Q: Some of your members are companies that have a pretty poor track record or are involved in controversial projects, such as Newmont, Coeur d’Alene, and Anglogold Ashanti....
...Among mining stocks Coeur d'Alene shares fell 5.9 per cent to $3.54 after the company relaunched its bid for Canada's Wheaton River....
...美国科达伦矿业又现亏损 美国白银生产商——科达伦矿业(Coeur d’Alene Mines)公布了第11个季度亏损,同时公司进一步推迟对加拿大黄金生产商惠顿河矿业(Wheaton River Minerals)17亿美元的收购要约。...
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