Articles by Northern Miner Staff

NEO ALLIANCELooking north across one of the open pits at Neo Alliance's Majiahe gold project in Gansu province, China. The company recently poured its first bullion from trial mining there.

Neo Alliance pours gold from trial mining

Vancouver — Aspiring junior gold producer Neo Alliance Minerals (NAM-V) recently poured its first bullion from trial mining operations at the Majiahe project in Gansu province, China….


Tianshan confirms new discovery

Australian explorer Tianshan Goldfields (TGF-L, TGF-A), pursuing a drill program on its Gold Mountain property in the Xinjiang-Uygur autonomous region (historically, Turkestan), has intersected severa…



Aquila intersects sulphides in Michigan

Through most of the current field season Aquila Resources (AQA-V, AQARF-O) has been drilling massive sulphide intersections at the Back Forty project in Menominee Cty., Mich….


McVicar goes shopping

Armed with around $2.8 million from a recent private placement, McVicar Resources (MCV-V, MCVRF-O) has picked up a group of Chinese gold and molybdenum properties….


China hires 70,000 safety inspectors for coal mines

The state-owned People’s Daily Online is reporting that some 70,000 miners have been recruited by Chinese coal mines to work as mining safety supervisors, a move by the All-China Federation of Trade U…


MAC warns mines ministers of looming problems

The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) delivered a strong message to federal, provincial and territorial governments recently at the 63rd annual Mines Ministers Conference in Whitehorse, Yukon, warnin…


Red Dragon taps more Weixi zinc

Vancouver — Sampling by Red Dragon Resources (DRA-V, RDDRF-O) on its Weixi lead-zinc project in Yunnan province, China continues to return high-grade zinc values….



Lending Rates (September 04, 2006)

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Bank of Canada 4.50
Target overnight rate 4.25
Canadian Prime 6.00
SOUTHWESTERN RESOURCESA drill tests Southwestern Resources' gold exploration project in Yunnan province, China.

Banking on Boka

Southwestern Resources (SWG-T, SWGGF-O), a junior with nine years of Chinese exploration experience under its belt, is aggressively advancing the Boka gold project in the Yunnan province of China thro…


JINSHAN GOLD MINESConstruction of the boiler plant at Jinshan Gold Mines' CSH (217) gold project in Inner Mongolia, China. A feasibility study there envisioned a mine capable of producing about 117,000 oz. gold a year for the first nine years at a cash cost of US$253 per oz. The company hopes to start production by the end of 2006 or early 2007.

Jinshan Gold aims for year-end startup

Vancouver — Mine development is rapidly advancing at Jinshan Gold Mines’ (JIN-V, JINFF-O) Chang Shan Hao (217) gold deposit, in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, following completion of…


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