First Quantum earns US$45.9 million in 2008
Vancouver – Despite record copper production First Quantum Minerals (FM-T) managed to earn just US$45.9 million in …
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
The PDAC speech Don Coxe didn’t give
Due to a rare Parvo virus contracted on vacation in the Caribbean, Donald Coxe, founder and chairman of Coxe Adviso…
Rio Tinto sells Jacobs Ranch to Arch Coal
It looks like Rio Tinto’s (RTP-N, RIO-L) recent US$19-billion cash infusion from Chinese state-owned Aluminum Corp….
Vedanta buying Asarco for US$1.7B
Vancouver – Beleagured US copper giant Asarco has agreed to Vedanta Resources’ (VED-L) revised US$1.7 billion offer…
Canadian Royalties to renegotiate debentures
If market conditions don’t improve, Canadian Royalties (CZZ-T) might not have enough cash to pay interest on $137.5…
Policy changes in Zimbabwe lead New Dawn to restart development
New Dawn Mining (ND-T) plans to take its 100%-owned Turk mine in Zimbabwe out of care and maintenance and put it ba…
Good grades can’t lift Hana
The latest results from Hana Mining’s (HMG-V) Ghanzi copper and silver project in Botswana returned high grades, bu…
NovaGold, HudBay Headline PDAC Award Winners
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada presented seven awards at a ceremony at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel during the association’s 77th annual convention in Toronto.
People (March 09, 2009)
Andina Minerals– Keith McKay appointed executive VP; Alejandro Labbe appointed VP of project development.
U. S. Markets – Feb. 24 -Mar. 2
U. S. markets were down during the Feb. 24-Mar. 2 trading period. The catalyst for the sell-off was a staggering quarterly loss of US$62 billion, the highest in corporate history, at troubled insurer …
Toronto Stock Exchange – Feb. 24 -Mar. 2
There was a mixture of good and bad news over the Feb. 24-March 2 trading period, making for a 40-point gain on the S&P/TSX composite index to 7,687.51 points. Profits from Canada’s banking sector…
Lme Warehouse Levels (March 09, 2009)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Mar. 3, 2009 (change from Feb. 24 in brackets):