Northern Miner Staff, Author at The Northern Miner

Vancouver — Junior silver producer First Majestic Resource (FR-V, FMJRF-O) has arranged a $20-million bought-deal financing aimed at expanding its operations in Mexico….

News April 10, 2006

Esperanza, Silver Standard extend high-grade San Luis vein

Vancouver — Channel sampling by Esperanza Silver (EPZ-V, ESPZF-O) and Silver Standard Resources (sso-t, ssri-q) on the San Luis joint venture, in central Peru, has extended the strike of the Ayeln v…

News April 10, 2006

De Beers’ FalC claim dismissed (April 10, 2006)

The Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan has dismissed an action brought by De Beers Canada against its Fort la Corne (FalC) joint-venture partners Shore Gold (SGF-T, SHGDF-O), Cameco (CCO-T, CCJ…

News April 10, 2006

Diavik surpasses 20M carats

In the little over three years since startup, the Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories has produced just under 20 million carats of rough diamonds to the end of 2005….

News April 10, 2006

With mine and mill construction proceeding on schedule, Capstone Mining (CS-T, CSFFF-O) expects to begin operations by the third quarter of this year at its Cozamin copper-silver-zinc project in Zacat…