Polar Star to choose board of directors in April
Polar Star Mining (PSR-V) will hold a shareholders meeting on Apr. 17 that will decide the fate of its current boar…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Geologix’s loss is Silver Standard’s gain
Unable to get its hands on the money it needed, Geologix Explorations (GIX-T, GXEFX-O) must walk away from a projec…
China Inc. steps up foreign acquisitions; bids for Oz Minerals
China’s state-owned companies are ratcheting up their acquisitions of struggling mining companies that have been hi…
TSX Venture Exchange rights and warrants
The following are the mining-related rights and warrants now trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (in C$ unless no…
Commentary: Looking at maintenance as an investment
Mining is a tough business and in order to stay competitive, every available advantage must be considered and where…
Lending Rates (February 16, 2009)
as of 9 a. m. ET. Feb. 10, 2009 (%) Bank of Canada 1.25 Target overnight rate 1.00 Canadian Prime 3.00 U. S. Discount Primary 0.50 U. S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U. S. Prime …
Agnico-Eagle, PotashCorp Scoop Up IR Awards
In a field dominated by the slicker sectors of the Canadian economy such as banking and hi-tech, the investor-relations efforts of a couple of mining companies came out on top at the IR Magazine Canad…
Toronto Stock Exchange – FEB. 3-9
The job picture on both sides of the Canada-U. S. border continued to deteriorate in January, with 598,000 U. S. jobs lost, and 129,000 fewer jobs in Canada. The unemployment rate stateside rose to 7….
TSX Venture Exchange – FEB. 3-9
The S&P/TSX Venture composite index broke 900 points for only the third time since mid-November during the Feb. 3-9 trading period, closing the week up 28.28 points at 901.1. Daily trading volumes…
Xstrata Chops Jobs, Output In Sudbury
Continued low nickel prices are forcing Xstrata (XSRAF-O, XTA-L) subsidiary Xstrata Nickel to accelerate the downsizing of its nickel mining and milling assets in Ontario’s Sudbury basin.
Tanzanian Royalty Strikes Deal With Kazakh Africa
Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corp.’ s (TNX-T, TRE-X) shares climbed 5% to $4.39 per share following news it had signed an agreement with Kazakh Africa Mining involving its diamond licences in the Mwa…
‘Porkulus’ To Stoke Inflation
The financial world during the fifth trading week of the year was dominated by the haggling in Washington, D. C., over the size and content of the federal government’s unprecedentedly large stimulus b…