Northern Miner Staff, Author at The Northern Miner

News May 29, 2006

Inco, Steelworkers reach tentative deal (May 29, 2006)

Eleventh-hour talks between Inco (N-T, N-N) and United Steelworkers (USW) locals 6500 and 6200 have delivered a ten…

BY ROB ROBERTSONAn aerial view of the lonore camp in the James Bay region of northern Quebec during the summer of 2005. The property nows belongs to Goldcorp after its friendly takeover of Virginia Gold Mines late last year.

News May 29, 2006

Goldcorp ready to develop Canada’s newest gold camp

Vancouver — With grades and production starting to slip at the Red Lake gold mine in northwestern Ontario, Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) is stepping up the pace of exploration at its newly acquired lonore g…

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Exchange Rates (May 29, 2006)

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SARAH HURSTA dozer moves along the dry stack tailings facility at the Pogo gold mine in Alaska. The tailings are at one of the windiest locations on the mine site.

News May 29, 2006

Managing Pogo’s tailings: the 1% solution

Nestled in the delicate Alaska wilderness, the Pogo gold mine project posed major challenges in terms of designing a tailings system that would have a small footprint….

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Nova Scotia enjoying gold revival

It’s dj vu all over again in Nova Scotia, with Acadian Gold (ADA-V, ADGLF-O) following in the footsteps of Seabright Resources by putting together a large land package of gold projects and doing a d…

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Major financings continue to roll (May 29, 2006)

Vancouver — Abundant cash remains readily available to mineral explorers and developers in this resilient resource market, as evidenced by a quintet of recent financings….

BY ROB ROBERTSONA view of Anatolia Minerals Development's Copler gold project area in east-central Turkey, as it looked in late 2003.

News May 29, 2006

Anatolia achieves milestone at Copler

Anatolia Minerals Development (ANO-T, ALIAF-O) is fine-tuning a newly completed positive feasibility study of its 100%-owned Copler gold project in Turkey, with the objective of making a production de…

BY STEPHEN STAKIWA panoramic view of Endeavour Silver's Guanacevi silver mine operations in northwestern Durango state, Mexico.

News May 29, 2006

Endeavour Silver makes strides at Guanacevi

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Osisko extends Canadian Malartic mineralization (May 29, 2006)

Abitibi explorer Osisko Exploration (OSK-V, OSXLF-O) has finished off another phase of drilling at the Canadian Malartic gold project south of Malartic, Que., with indications of more mineralization t…

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Nevsun ships gold from Tabakoto

Vancouver — The first shipment of gold produced from the commissioning phase of the Tabakoto open-pit mine in Mali, West Africa, has elevated Nevsun Resources (NSU-T) to the ranks of junior gold prod…

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