LME Warehouse Levels (March 05, 2007)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Feb. 26, 2006 (change from Feb. 19 in brackets):
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Ontario nickel projects advance
Nickel projects in northern Ontario seem to be proceeding nicely, defying the predictions of doom vented before the takeovers of Inco and Falconbridge.
Debate ramps up as Northern Dynasty’s Pebble grows
Vancouver — Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-V, NAK-X) says its huge Pebble project in southwestern Alaska now ranks as the world’s second-largest porphyry copper-gold deposit, and could get even large…
Southwestern hits high grade at Boka 1 South
Vancouver — Southwestern Resources (SWG-T, SWGGF-O) says it is on track to deliver a prefeasibility study for its Boka gold project in southwestern China after releasing new drill results from the pr…
Sultan launches Jersey Emerald scoping study (March 05, 2007)
Vancouver — Junior explorer Sultan Minerals (SUL-V, SLMLF-O) is taking the first steps toward reviving a former mining camp in southeastern British Columbia that once ranked among North America’s lea…
Back to Lynn Lake
It’s been a tough sell to institutional investors, but Independent Nickel (INI-V, INIFF-O) of Sudbury, Ont., has raised the money needed to proceed with an ambitious drill program at the Lynn Lake nic…
High on Tibet
SITE VISIT Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China — With the Chinese government looking to use Continental Minerals’ (KMK-V, KMKCF-O) Xietongmen copper-gold deposit as a template for future foreign mining deals…
GlobeStar sees opportunity in DR
SITE VISIT Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — When Bill Fisher, chief executive of GlobeStar Mining (GMI-T), first arrived on the tropical shores of the Dominican Republic, the weather may have…
BC boosts tax credit for exploration in beetle-kill zone
Vancouver — British Columbia is using tax credits in a bid to spur mineral exploration spending in vast areas of the provincial forest that are being ravaged by an infestation of Mountain Pine Beetle…
Friedland touts Mongolian partnership
Vancouver — Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) chairman Robert Friedland says he can see the advantage of partnering with the government of Mongolia as the company works to develop the massive Oyu Tolgoi c…
Xstrata, Barrick table new Kabanga resource (March 05, 2007)
It’s a deposit that’s been kicking around for decades, but seems to be getting more respect of late.
Niger uranium draws interest
Vancouver — The hot uranium market has spurred explorers to broaden the global hunt for the energy metal, putting the West African country of Niger in the spotlight again.