Walkouts may keep copper prices aloft
MONTERREY, MEXICO–Anyone looking for reasons why copper prices are likely to remain strong in 2008 need look no further than Latin America.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Sweden’s shrewd scion
SITE VISIT STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Lukas Lundin is clear about where he wants to take Lundin Mining (LUN-T, LMC-N). The chairman of Lundin and progeny of resource legend Adolf Lundin…
Feeding the dragon
MONTERREY, MEXICO –China may be some 10,000 miles from Latin America, 45 hours of flights and stopovers and days away at sea, but it is making its presence felt in a region long used to U.S. dominanc…
U.S. Markets (March 03, 2008)
A deepening housing slump and rising consumer prices all point to more trouble ahead for equity markets in the United States. According to a UBS research report released on Feb. 20, the U.S. economy i…
NovaGold stands pat on Copper Canyon (March 03, 2008)
NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-X) will maintain its 60% interest in the Copper Canyon property in northwestern B.C., choosing not to exercise its option to move up to an 80% interest by paying Copper Ca…
La Mancha works to gain market favour
It’s been nearly two years since a reverse takeover put Areva’s gold assets into La Mancha Resources’s (LMA-T, LACHF-O) hands (then listed on the TSX Venture Exchange) — effectively creating a gold s…
Kinbauri’s efforts at El Valle paying off (March 03, 2008)
VANCOUVER — It’s looking more and more like Kinbauri Gold’s (KNB-V, KINBF-O) $5-million bet on the past-producing El Valle and Carles gold-copper deposits in northwestern Spain was a good one.
Colombia’s untapped gold potential lures wary miners
VANCOUVER — Since 1997, the Fraser Institute has ranked the policy attractiveness of more than 60 mining jurisdictions based on a composite index with a maximum possible score of 100.
SRA revives Mid-Tennessee zinc complex
SITE VISIT GORDONSVILLE, TENNESSEE–During 28 years of production at the Mid-Tennessee zinc mine complex, it wasn’t always the zinc that kept business afloat. Agricultural lime, gravel, germanium and even a…
Commentry
The financial bottom line isn’t the only thing that counts for stakeholders these days. Increasingly, they’re paying close attention to a company’s ethical and environmental performance — its non-fin…
Gold, oil hit record highs
More records were set for commodity prices during the week ended Feb. 23, the eighth trading period of 2008, as both oil and gold prices rose to new, all-time nominal highs as the U.S. dollar suffered…
New Horizons (March 03, 2008)
For centuries, some of the greatest scholars believed in alchemy — the ability to turn base metals into gold. While none ever succeeded, there are echoes of alchemy in today’s technological advances …