Merger Cash To Help Potash One Advance Legacy
As many juniors deliberate over doing financings amidst the market turmoil, Potash One (KCL-T, KCLOF-O) president and CEO Paul Matysek is getting ready to coast through the next year once his company …
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
OSC Ruling Could Stymie HudBay-Lundin Deal
With one ruling from the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the futures of both HudBay Minerals (HBM-T, HBMFF-O) and Lundin Mining (LUN-T, LMC-N) have been drastically altered.
The Expert’s Guide To Alternative Financing
The economic crisis means mining companies will have to get more creative in finding non-traditional routes to financing, investment bankers and consultants warned at a recent MineAfrica seminar on mi…
Hana Mining Hits Copper-Silver In Botswana
VANCOUVER–New results from the Ghanzi copper-silver project in Botswana show promising grades for owner Hana Mining (HMG-V).
Bought Deal Brings $51.8M To Anatolia
Anatolia Minerals Development (ANO-T, ALIAF-O) will raise $51.8 million in a financing led by RBC Capital Markets to help fund its Copler gold project in Turkey.
Western Lithium Hopes To Ride The ‘Tidal Wave’
Toyota’s announcement at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit earlier this month that its new plug-in hybrid will be powered by lithium ion batteries was hailed as a triumph for compa…
Red Back Raises $150M For African Gold Operations
VANCOUVER– Red Back Mining (RBI-T, RBIFF-O) is riding the gold tide and raising money again. It was only two months ago that the gold producer had to boost a $40- million financing to $60 million bec…
Climate Change Issue A Web Of Complexities: OMA
— The following is an edited recap of the Ontario Mining Association’s Climate Change Workshop, a half-day seminar held Jan. 15, 2009, at the OMA’s office in Toronto.
The Bell Tolls For HudBay-Lundin Merger
The unravelling of the controversial HudBay-Lundin merger was the biggest mining story in Canada during the week ended Jan. 24, the third trading week of the year, as weeks of relative quiet over the …
Correction (February 02, 2009)
Bard Ventures’ (CBS-V, BVTLF-O) Lone Pine project, 15 km northwest of Houston, B. C., has a measured and indicated resource of 110.3 million tonnes grading 0.083% molybdenum, totalling 201.7 million l…
African Copper Shuts Down Mowana
African Copper (ACU-T, ACU-L) is closing the doors on its Mowana copper mine in Botswana.
Ring Of Fire Hot In Silver And Zinc
Since 2007 when Noront Resources (NOT-V, NOSOF-O) discovered a high-grade nickel-copper-platinum-palladium deposit in the James Bay lowlands in an area now dubbed the Ring of Fire, more than a hundred…