Barrick boosts bid for NovaGold
Vancouver – Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) has increased and extended its takeover bid for NovaGold Resources (NG-T, N…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
CVRD scoops up 76% of Inco, extends offer (October 24, 2006)
Brazil’s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO-N) is reporting that 174,623,019 shares of Inco (N-T, N-N) have been depos…
Cameco’s Cigar Lake suffers major setback
Vancouver – Mine development at Cameco’s (CCO-T, CCJ-N) 50%-owned Cigar Lake uranium project in the Athabasca Basin…
Teachers back McEwen
Rob McEwen’s efforts to force a vote by Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) shareholders on the proposed US$8.6-billion takeover o…
Nuinsco climbs on high grade nickel concentrate
Metallurgical test results from Nuinsco Resources’ (NWI-T) wholly owned Minago deposit came in, and the news is goo…
Colombia attracting mining’s heavy hitters
Marmato, Colombia — Efforts by Colombian authorities to attract international mining investment are bearing fruit as the ranks of foreign investors taking a serious look at the country swell. A year …
When it rains it pours in Pine Valley
The list of problems for junior coal-producer Pine Valley Mining (PVM-T, PVMCF-O) is long: a washplant with poor recoveries; a pit with more oxidized coal than expected; and a loan agreement that coul…
Editorial: McEwen’s right, but does anyone still care?
While Rob McEwen and Ian Telfer are two of mining’s most successful CEOs, you couldn’t get more pronounced differences in personality and style, with McEwen, the obsessive maverick, embodying the clas…
Trouble afoot in markets
COMMENTARY — The following is the first of three edited parts of a speech presented at the recent Silver Summit in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. I am rabidly bullish on the…
Toronto Stock Exchange October 10-16
The market made a healthy gain over the Oct. 10-16 trading session, as both gold and base metals rallied. Overall the TSX Composite Index gained 3% to 12,061.54. Gold was up US$16.85 per oz., pushing …
CNQ Trading (October 23, 2006)
Oct. 10-16, 2006
First Metals heading underground at Fabie
The province of Quebec has issued a permit to First Metals (FMA-T) to extract a 50,000-tonne bulk sample from the Fabie Bay copper deposit in northwestern Quebec, allowing quick feasibility work on th…