CanAlaska options reserve lands in Athabasca Basin
Vancouver – CanAlaska Uranium (CVV-V, CVVLF-O) has optioned a 385-sq. km land package, located on the northern rim …
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Editorial: Mining and CSR, part I
Major mining companies and most juniors have adopted progressive environmental and social policies designed to help…
Rusoro plans to take out Mena
Venezuelan explorers Rusoro Mining (RML-V) and Mena Resources (MEA-V) have announced a friendly takeover by Rusoro …
News – 28-NOV-06
Expansions for Gold Fields’ Tarkwa mine
Gold Fields (GFI-N, GOF-L, GOGOF-J) has decided to nearly triple the throughput capacity of its carbon-in-leach pla…
Mining sector eyes leftist tilt in Ecuador
Vancouver Mining companies with operations in Ecuador say they remain cautiously optimistic after leftist economi…
Guarded optimism in the Philippines
There’s nowhere to go but up when it comes to mining production in the Philippines. In 1980, the mining sector …
Woodlawn pre-feasibility underway
Metallurgical testing and engineering and design work for the Woodlawn base metal project in New South Wales, Austr…
Gryphon Gold dealt major blow
Vancouver – Reserve and resource miscalculations in a recently completed feasibility study for Gryphon Gold’s (GGN-…
Queenston cuts new gold at Upper Beaver
Drill holes north of the established mineralization at the Upper Beaver gold property in Gauthier Twp., about 20 km east of Kirkland Lake, Ont., have intersected gold on two previously unknown mineral…
Toronto Stock Exchange Nov. 14-20
A slide in the price of oil early in week pulled the S&P-TSX Composite Index lower, but a rally in the price of nickel and gold helped fuel a comeback as it finished the Nov. 14-20 period up 107.2…
Exchange Rates (November 27, 2006)
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